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Hi, University of Illinois Press are about to publish the following title on Marker: Chris Marker by Nora M. Alter, University of Florida Having spearheaded the bourgeoning Nouvelle Vague scene in the late 1950s and developed a distinctive style involving still images, Chris Marker (born Christian François Bouche-Villeneuve) stands among the most influential filmmakers of the postwar era, yet remains enigmatic. His notorious reclusiveness has led to surprisingly few studies, and Nora M. Alter's Chris Marker presents the first English-language study of the director. Marker's 1953 debut "filmic essay," The Statues Also Die (with Alain Resnais) exposed the European art market's complicity in the former Belgian Congo atrocities, and provided a bold model for other politically committed filmmakers. Thus began Marker's long struggle against global injustice, a trajectory that included his involvement with Night and Fog, La Jetée, Le Joli Mai, Far from Vietnam, Le fond du l'air est Rouge, and Prime Time in the Camps. Alter's careful study includes interviews with the director and investigates the core themes and motivations behind an often unpredictable and transnational career that defies easy classification. A volume in the Contemporary Film Directors series, edited by James Naremore Nora M. Alter is Research Professor of German, Film and Media Studies at the University of Florida. She is the author of Vietnam Protest Theatre: The Television War on Stage and Projecting History: Non-fiction German Cinema: 1967-2000. Available in the UK July 2006 200 pages. 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches. 17 photographs. Paper, ISBN 0-252-07316-9. £12.95 www.combinedacademic.co.uk or email: [log in to unmask] or telephone: 01235 465500 Julia Monk Marketing Manager Combined Academic Publishers 48 Baldslow Road Hastings East Sussex TN34 2EY Tel/Fax: 44 (0)1424 436533 Email: [log in to unmask] ----- Original Message ----- From: guy assal To: [log in to unmask] Sent: Sunday, May 14, 2006 4:15 PM Subject: Chris Marker Hello, : I'm looking for biographical information - books, papers -, on Chris Marker. Most of the things I know about him is through the net: A cat that was born in Mongolia and came from out of space... Does any one ever wrote about Christian François Bouche-Villeneuve? -- Guy Assal גיא אסל Editor&Film Director עורך ובמאי סרטים Tel' 972 (2) 6721257 / 972 (52) 2384130 'טל Email: [log in to unmask] * * Film-Philosophy Email Discussion Salon. After hitting 'reply' please always delete the text of the message you are replying to. To leave, send the message: leave film-philosophy to: [log in to unmask] For help email: [log in to unmask], not the salon. **