Chris Marker: Early Film Writings

Softback

248 pages

University of Minnesota Press

ISBN: 9781517913199

Formative writings by French avant-garde filmmaker Chris Marker

Translated by Sally Shafto and Edited by Steven Ungar.

It is hard to imagine French cinema without La Jetée (1962), the time-travel short feature by Christian François Bouche-Villeneuve, better known as Chris Marker.

Marker’s influence expanded beyond his own films through his writings for the French monthly Esprit as well as anthologies and newly founded film publications. This first English translation of Marker’s early writings on film brings together reviews and essays, published between 1948 and 1955, that span the topics of film style, adaptation, and ideology, as well as animation and the debates surrounding 3-D and wide-screen technologies, ranging from late silent-era films to postwar Hollywood’s efforts to contend with the rise of television.