Transcendental Style In Film by Paul Schrader

Transcendental Style In Film Paul Schrader ebook
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Format: pdf
ISBN: 9780306803352
Page: 208

In Paul Schrader's 1972 book, Transcendental Style in Film, the renowned filmmaker/theorist (with a Christian background… he went to Calvin) outlined his theory for how transcendence is achieved stylistically in cinema. Although his career spanned the 1910s through the 1960s, his meticulousness, tyrannical-dictatorial methods, idiosyncratic shooting style, stubborn devotion to his art, and difficulty raising money to finance his film projects ensured that his output remained low. In his book, Transcendental Style in Film, Paul Schrader discusses how many narrative films used what he terms "overabundant means" in conveying enlightenment or a dramatic form of religious experience. Transcendental style in the cinema of John Ford. Phil Solomon, Betzy Bromberg, Charlotte Pryce, Thom Andersen, they all had a big influence on me. I was at the gym the other day, and I had put TCM on one of the televisions in the cardio room, in part because it confuses people, and in part because, well, I felt like it. Hart of London is one of my favorite films. There aren't too many Uruguayan films featured on Twitch, but Whisky is not a conventional South American picture anyway; instead it embodies the style that Taxi Driver writer Paul Schrader termed Transcendental. It has such a fascinating background with the Schrader connection, and he talks about the film in the book 'Schrader on Schrader' as his stepping stone from his study of Transcendental Style in Film to Taxi Driver. In spite of all that, he produced some of the most enduring . His thesis on film directors Yasajiro Ozu, Robert Bresson and Carl Dreyer was published as "Transcendental Style in Film" by the University of California Press. He has influenced a number of other film-makers, including Jim Jarmusch and Paul Schrader, whose book Transcendental Style in Film: Ozu, Bresson, Dreyer (ISBN 0306803356) includes a detailed critical analysis.