Christopher Lloyd - Henri-Georges Clouzot - Paperback Book

Name: Christopher Lloyd - Henri-Georges Clouzot - Paperback Book
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Christopher Lloyd

Henri-Georges ClouzotAuthor(s): Christopher Lloyd\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Manchester University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Manchester University Press\nISBN-13: 9781784992866, 978-1784992866\nSynopsis\nNow available in paperback, this book offers a significant revaluation of Clouzots achievement, situating his career in the wider context of French cinema and society, and providing detailed and clear analysis of his major films (Le corbeau, Quai des Orfvres, Le Salaire de la peur, Les diaboliques, Le mystre Picasso). \n\nClouzots films combine meticulous technical control with sardonic social commentary and the ability to engage and entertain a broad public. Although his films are characterised by an all-controlling perfectionism, allied to documentary veracity and a disturbing bleakness of vision, Clouzot is well aware that his is an art of illusion. His fondness for anatomising social pretence, the deception, violence and cruelty practised by individuals and institutions.