Overview
""La Jetee"" (The Jetty), the science fiction film was released in 1964 and is considered by many critics to be among the best experimental films ever made. Chris Marker composed this post-Apocalypse story of memory and loss almost entirely of black-and-white still photographs. The story involves an experiment in recovering and changing the past through the action of memory, but the film can be read as a poem dominated by a single moving image, which by its context becomes one of the supreme moments in all film. This Zone edition reproduces the film's original images along with the script in both English and French.
Full Product Details
Author: Chris Marker ,
Bruce Mau
Publisher: Zone Books
Imprint: Zone Books
Dimensions:
Width: 24.10cm
, Height: 2.70cm
, Length: 19.10cm
Weight: 0.975kg
ISBN: 9780942299663
ISBN 10: 0942299663
Pages: 258
Publication Date: 04 May 1993
Recommended Age: From 18
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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General/trade
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Undergraduate
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Awaiting stock
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Language: French
Reviews
[La Jetee is] a remarkable short film about romance and postapocalyptic time travel...you can get a further sense of La Jetee's power in the photobook version...a superb job of preserving the sense of fragmentation, fragility, and stark visual beauty that has made La Jetee a classic. -Wired [La Jetee] evokes much of the film's impact, successfully conveying its lyrical, dreamlike quality and its message of hope and love. -Booklist
[La Jetee is] a remarkable short film about romance and postapocalyptic time travel...you can get a further sense of La Jetee's power in the photobook version...a superb job of preserving the sense of fragmentation, fragility, and stark visual beauty that has made La Jetee a classic.-Wired [La Jetee] evokes much of the film's impact, successfully conveying its lyrical, dreamlike quality and its message of hope and love.-Booklist * Reviews * [La Jetee is] a remarkable short film about romance and postapocalyptic time travel...you can get a further sense of La Jetee's power in the photobook version...a superb job of preserving the sense of fragmentation, fragility, and stark visual beauty that has made La Jetee a classic.-Wired * Reviews *
This book version of La Jetee is, to my mind, astonishingly beautiful. It brings a total freshness to the work and a new way to use photos to deal with dramatic events. Not a film's book, but a book in its own right - the real cine-roman announced in the film's credits. - Chris Marker
Author Information
Chris Marker (born in 1921) is one of French cinema's most influential artists.
