Neither god nor master [electronic resource] : Robert Bresson and radical politics / Brian Price.

Based on the author's doctoral dissertation--New York University.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Crime as a form of liberation : modeling revolt in Pickpocket and A man escaped -- Word and image, world and nothingness : logocentrism and ironic reversal in Procès de Jeanne d'Arc, Diary of a country priest, and Les anges du péché -- Man and animal, master and servant : animals and criminality Mouchette and Au hasard Balthazar -- The aftermath of revolt : Une femme douce and The turn to color -- Disintegration : Lancelot du Lac, or, the failure of identification and totality -- The agony of ideas : The devil probably and revolutionary discourse -- The last gasp : L'argent and the end of socialism.

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.