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| La Jetee: cine-roman | 
 enlarge | Author: Chris Marker
Creator: Bruce Mau
Publisher: Zone Books
Category: Book
List Price: $38.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 329316
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1st
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 258
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.1
Dimensions (in): 9.8 x 7.8 x 0.9
ISBN: 0942299663
Dewey Decimal Number: 791
EAN: 9780942299663
ASIN: 0942299663
Publication Date: April 30, 2008
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Condition: In its original shrink wrap.
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"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
La Jetee, the legendary science fiction film about time and memory after a nuclear apocalypse, was released in 1964 and is considered by many critics to be among the greatest experimental films ever made. (It provided the basis for Terry Gilliam's 1995 film 12 Monkeys.) Chris Marker, who is the undisputed master of the film essay, composed this postapocalyptic story almost entirely of black-and-white still photographs. The story concerns an experiment in recovering and changing the past through the action of memory, yet the film can be read as a poem dominated by a single moving image, which in its context becomes one of the supreme moments in the history of film.
This Zone Books edition reproduces the film's original images along with the script in both English and French.
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a close look August 1, 2000
6 out of 9 found this review helpful
This book takes the film shot by shot giving you clear images that you can't see on the vhs copies in release. This is the best way of taking a close look at the film that has inspired so many filmmakers over the years.
Amazing storyteller April 18, 2000
3 out of 7 found this review helpful
I first saw this in college about five years ago. It was in an art class where we were discussing time. This was before 12 monkeys came out and people had never seen a film of such complexity (at least in Hollywood). Each still was posted on the screen and a movie was created in your mind. Thinking back I thought I had seen a full movie when really I only saw a few stills. It was amazing. I highly recommend this book to those who loved 12 monkeys for it's artsy complexity and I also recommend it to those who hate mainstream movies and love solely art films. The reason I liken this book to film is because after reading this book you feel like you just watched a movie like Brazil or The City of Lost Children!
A masterpiece transfered to the page October 2, 2001
3 out of 7 found this review helpful
Image and emotion move as you turn the pages. Marker's images are extraordianry in their power to evoke so much humanity in each still.
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