Truffaut at Work

by Carole Le Berre

Book Overview

Fran?ois Truffaut (1932-1984), French motion-picture director and critic, is a leader of the nouvelle vague movement of film-makers who rejected the slick, impersonal style of studio filmmaking for a more personal approach, in which the director has sole creative authority and is recognized as the author of a film.

Truffaut was born in Paris. After a troubled childhood, he left school at the age of 14. Through his passion for film, he met Andr?...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 071484568X
• ISBN13: 9780714845685
• Release Date: December 2005
• Publisher: Phaidon Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 4.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 9.7" x 11.4"
• Age Range: 13 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 8 to Postsecondary