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Jacques Prévert: From Film and Theatre to Poetry (Chiasma 12)
Jacques Prvert From Film and Theatre to Poetry - Chiasma 12 Author:Michael Bishop A wide-ranging study of Préverts promethean imagination and creativity in the interwoven realms of theatre, film, poetry, art, photography, and song, Michael Bishops Jacques Prévert seeks to demonstrate the originality of a genial fabricator of image and word whose essential focus, unpretentious yet urgently felt, unintelle... more »ctualised yet buoyantly and wittily intelligent, ever remains the quality of our daily being-in-the-world, the possibility of our self-transformation, the stunning availability should we truly will it, and despite all that can weigh upon existence, above all ideologically of joy and love and freedom. Table of Contents: INHERITANCE AND CLIMATE. From Romanticism to the First World War. Childhood. Final Apprenticeships. SOCIETY AND ETHICS. Social Structures, Ideology. Anarchy, Freedom. Language, Intelligence, Science. Children, People. Values? EMOTION. An Aesthetics of Emotion? Complication, (Com)passion. Fear, (Self-)punishment. The Marvelous. Laughter. (Self-)love. Festivity, Joy. EARTH. Profundity, Beauty. Recognition, Embrace. Animals. Trees. Other Things. Streets. ART. Picasso. Miró. Calder. Henriquez. Léger. Braque. Klee. Ribemont-Dessaignes. Charbonnier. From Chagall and Giacometti to Vasarely and Magritte. Préverts Collages. FILM, THEATER, PHOTOGRAPHY. Film: Beginnings. Film: Preferences. Film: Creations. Theater: Octobre. Theater: Beyond Octobre. Photography: From Ronis to Boubat. Photography: Ylla, Villers, Doisneau, Izis. SONG AND SPEECH. Song: From Fernandel, Cora Vaucaire and Edith Piaf to Serge Reggiani, Yves Montand and Marlene Dietrich. Speech: Literature, Genre, Word. Form? Play and Purpose. ORIGINALITIES. Writing Around Prévert. Writing Beyond Prévert. Selected Bibliography.« less