Neither God nor Master – Robert Bresson and Radical Politics Price Paperback

Neither God nor MasterRobert Bresson and Radical Politics\nAuthor(s): Brian Price\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Minnesota Press, United States\nImprint: University of Minnesota Press\nISBN-13: 9780816654628, 978-0816654628\nSynopsis\nThe French auteur Robert Bresson, director of such classics as Diary of a Country Priest [tel], The Trial of Joan of Arc [tel], The Devil, Probably [tel], and LArgent [tel], has long been thought of as a transcendental filmmaker preoccupied with questions of grace and predestination and little interested in the problems of the social world. This book is the first to view Bressons work in an altogether different context. Rather than a religious-or spiritual-filmmaker, Bresson is revealed as an artist steeped in radical, revolutionary politics. \nSituating Bresson in radical and aesthetic political contexts, from surrealism to situationism, Neither God nor Master shows how his early style was a model for social resistance. We then see how, a.