Parade jacques tati biography book

  • The first complete, authoritative biography of the French icon, David Bellos has had the complete collaboration of Tati's daughter, and the freedom to examine.
  • The full story of one of France's greatest cinema legends, a clown whose film-making innovation was to turn everyday life into an art form.Jacques Tati's.
  • This biography charts Tati's rise and fall, from his earliest beginnings as a music hall mime during the Depression, to the success of Jour de Fete and Mon.

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    Jacques Tati, bygd David Bellos

    From the Summer 2000 issue of Cineaste, Vol. XXV, No. 3. — J.R.

    Jacques Tati

    by David Bellos. London: The Harvill Press, 1999. 382 pp., illus. Hardcover: £25.

    In some ways, this is a better biography of Jacques Tati than we had cause to expect from anyone — certainly a more cultivated one than the useful if relatively lowbrow efforts of James Harding in English (1984) and Marc Dondey in French (written with the assistance of Tati’s daughter Sophie Tatischeff, 1993). So it’s all the more regrettable that no American publisher or distributor to date has shown any interest in making this English book available. Even more unexpectedly, the author — who currently teaches in the departments of Comparative Literature and Romance Languages at Princeton — is best known for his work on Balzac (a survey of French criticism over the second half of the nineteenth century) and Georges Perec (a major biography and a good

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    Hardcover, octavo; 382pp., monochrome illustrations. A few faint spots on upper text block edges. Scraping on head of dustwrapper spine and upper rear corner. Minor wear otherwise; very good to near fine and professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. "From now on no celebration, no artistic or acrobatic spectacle can do without this amazing performer, who has invented something quite his own...His act is partly ballet and partly sport, partly satire and partly charade. He has devised a way of being both the player, the ball and the tennis racquet, of being simultaneously the football and the goalkeeper, the boxer and the opponent, the bicycle and the cyclist. Without any props, he conjures up his accessories and his partners. He has suggestive powers of all great artists," wrote Colette in 1936 reviewing a music-hall performance. Bellos charts Tati's career from his first success with "Jour de Fete" and "M. Hulot's Holiday", through the financial disaster

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    Afterword: Parade, Tati, and Participatory Culture

    Turvey, Malcolm. "Afterword: Parade, Tati, and Participatory Culture". Play Time: Jacques Tati and Comedic Modernism, New York Chichester, West Sussex: Columbia University Press, 2019, pp. 239-254. https://doi.org/10.7312/turv19302-007

    Turvey, M. (2019). Afterword: Parade, Tati, and Participatory Culture. In Play Time: Jacques Tati and Comedic Modernism (pp. 239-254). New York Chichester, West Sussex: Columbia University Press. https://doi.org/10.7312/turv19302-007

    Turvey, M. 2019. Afterword: Parade, Tati, and Participatory Culture. Play Time: Jacques Tati and Comedic Modernism. New York Chichester, West Sussex: Columbia University Press, pp. 239-254. https://doi.org/10.7312/turv19302-007

    Turvey, Malcolm. "Afterword: Parade, Tati, and Participatory Culture" In Play Time: Jacques Tati and Comedic Modernism, 239-254. New York Chichester, West Sussex: Columbia University Press, 2019. https://doi.org/10.7312/turv19302-007

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