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Performing Arts History & Criticism

Jean Pierre Lefebvre

Vidéaste

edited by Peter Harcourt

Publisher
Toronto International Film Festival
Initial publish date
Sep 2001
Category
History & Criticism, Canadian, Political
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780968913208
    Publish Date
    Sep 2001
    List Price
    $9.99

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Description

Jean Pierre Lefebvre is one of the most inventive and prolific of all Canadian filmmakers. From the sixties to the eighties, his films were as much celebrated at international film festivals as are the films of Atom Egoyan today.

More recently, Lefebvre has explored the creative potential of video as a visual medium. In Jean Pierre Lefebvre: Vidéaste, Peter Harcourt provides an overview of Lefebvre’s films and an incisive consideration of his five-part video project L’age des Images (1993-95). Two essays by Lefebvre, one a personal account of the influence of Québécois films on his work, the other an argument for a “national cinema”, along with a recent interview with him round out this timely look at a director of great distinction and emotive power.

Published by the Toronto International Film Festival. Distributed in Canada by Wilfrid Laurier University Press. Distributed outside Canada by Indiana University Press.

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Peter Harcourt is the author of Six European Directors: Speculations on the Meaning of Film Style.

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"Solid, scholarly and informative."

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