Staring Back

by Chris Marker

Photographs by one of French cinema's most influential and enigmatic artists.

Any new film and any new book by French filmmaker Chris Marker is an event. Marker gave film lovers one of their most memorable experiences with La Jet e (1962)--a time-travel montage set after a nuclear war that inspired Terry Gilliam's Twelve Monkeys (1995). His still camerawork is not as well known, but Marker has been taking photographs as long...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262083655
• ISBN13: 9780262083652
• Release Date: August 2007
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 165 Pages
• Weight: 2.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 11.2" x 8.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher