The Art of Cinema

by Jean Cocteau

Book Overview

For more than 30 years, Jean Cocteau maintained a passionate affair with the moving image. To him, film was a visionary dream-like medium, a glimpse of the phantoms that haunted the poet throughout his life. This posthumous collection of writings illuminates Cocteau's work for the cinema, with detailed discussions of his aims, responses to criticism and his reflections on the relationship between poetry, theatre and film. He also comments on the movie...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0714529745
• ISBN13: 9780714529745
• Release Date: April 2000
• Publisher: Marion Boyars Publishers
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.3" x 8.5"