{"product_id":"le-cinema-de-jean-genet-jane-giles","title":"Le Cinéma de Jean Genet. Un chant d’amour - Jane Giles","description":"\u003cp style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\" data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAuthor(s)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e Jane Giles, Edmund White, Albert Dichy, Nico Papatakis, Philippe-Alain Michaud\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003eFormat\u003cstrong\u003e paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003eYear\u003cstrong\u003e 2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003eLanguage(s)\u003cstrong\u003e French\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003ePages\u003cstrong\u003e 160 pages\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch4 style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\" data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\"\u003eDescription\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\" data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\"\u003eJean Genet is not only the greatest French prose writer of the postwar period, the perverse heir of Chateaubriand and Rimbaud, the man who imposed the mythology of enchanting murderers, inflexible pimps, and divine queens.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\" data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\"\u003eFilmmaker – but also screenwriter, theorist – Genet produced a rare, provocative, clandestine body of work that has gradually emerged since his death in 1986: \"It is strange to note,\" writes Edmund White in the preface, \"that Genet thought about cinema throughout his career as a writer. He wrote more pages of screenplays than of any other literature.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\" data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\"\u003eReading Jane Giles's book, one realizes that cinema, Genet's first cultural influence as an adolescent, is at the heart of his procedures as a writer, and that many constructions in Notre-Dame-des-Fleurs or Miracle de la rose – alternating montages, flashbacks, details – derive from it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\" data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\"\u003eFor Edmund White, \"Un Chant d'amour, the only film written and directed by Genet, reveals in their pure form the techniques he used in his novels and plays.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\" data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\"\u003eJane Giles, born in 1964, near London, defended her thesis at the University of Kent in 1986 on \"The Cinema of Jean Genet\" and published, in 1991, under the same title, a book at the B.F.I. (British Film Institute). In addition to a preamble by Serge Daney, this book includes a preface by Edmund White, interviews with Edmund White, Albert Dichy and Nico Papatakis, as well as a study by Philippe-Alain Michaud.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\" data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\"\u003eCollection: Cinéma\u003cbr\u003e1st edition: 1993\u003cbr\u003eTranslation: Françoise Michaud\u003cbr\u003ePreface: Edmund White\u003cbr\u003eText: Philippe-Alain Michaud\u003cbr\u003eDossier: Jean Genet, Albert Dichy, Edmund White, Nico Papatakis, Jane Giles, Frédéric Charpentier\u003cbr\u003e160 pages\u003cbr\u003ebibliography\u003cbr\u003e56 black and white illustrations\u003cbr\u003eFormat: 18 x 23 cm\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 978-2-86589-043-9\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jane Giles","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56788890943819,"sku":"SQ0787503","price":25.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1000\/3034\/9643\/files\/chant_damour_livre_cover.webp?v=1773411634","url":"https:\/\/re-voir.com\/en\/products\/le-cinema-de-jean-genet-jane-giles","provider":"Re:Voir","version":"1.0","type":"link"}