Foreword - Dudley Andrew Introduction - Jonathan Hourigan 1 A predestined affair: a portrait of Robert Bresson as a youngartist in dialogue with Coco Chanel and his era - Sally Shafto 2 Robert Bresson, multidisciplinary artist: discoveringthe career across media - Colin Burnett 3 Roland Penrose, Robert Bresson and Affaires publiques - Antony Penrose 4 Occupied Bresson: Les Anges du péché and Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne - Ginette Vincendeau 5 Robert Bresson's use of optical transitions in the editing of Journal d'un curé de campagne - Roger Crittenden 6 Bresson's philosophical commitments- Robert Pippin 7 'An air of truth.': Bresson and the concept of nature - Alfonso Hoyos Morales 8 Pickpocket and Bresson's political turn- Mathias Lavin 9 On two pickpockets, retouching some real with some real - Sarah Pickering 10 Martyr or saint? Body, image and acting style in Dreyer's La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc and Bresson's Procès de Jeanne d'Arc - Hanne Schelstraete 11 In the footsteps of Mouchette- Steve Gough 12 Transforming gestures: the possibilities of performance in Bresson's Mouchette - Miguel Gaggiotti 13 Innocence and Oppression in Au hasard Balthazar and Mouchette: a conversation between Sarah Dobai and Miguel Gaggiotti- Sarah Dobai and Miguel Gaggiotti 14 Marginal/Minimal: Robert Bresson, Céline Sciamma and applied cinephilia - Tim Palmer 15 Forging a Bresson house style: cinematography in the colour films - Raymond Watkins 16 States of soul: affinities in Robert Bresson and Alan Clarke- Richard T. Kelly 17 Grace in the films of Robert Bresson- Elise DuRant 18 Playing with mirrors: Quatre nuits d'un rêveur - Dominic Lash 19 'Ô argent, Dieu visible!' Radical politics and the lure of transcendence in Le Diable probablement and L'Argent - Karel Pletinck 20 Notes on L'Argent - Jonathan Hourigan 21 'La Genèse' and Robert Bresson's biblical poetics- Sean Burt Index.