Claire Denis is one of France's most acclaimed and original filmmakers. Since her remarkable debut success with 'Chocolat' (1986), she has produced an impressive series of features which have been intriguing, visually striking, and often highly controversial (including 'Beau Travail' (2000) and 'Trouble Every Day' (2001)).
Beugnet provides a thematic and stylistic framework within which to consider Denis' work, as well as a comprehensive analysis of individual films. She highlights the resonance of Denis' films in relation to ongoing debates about French national identity and culture, and issues of postcolonial identity, alienation and transgression, as well as examining their exploration of the interface between sexuality, desire and sensuality. This is an essential introduction to Denis, and a sophisticated and illuminating study of her work to date. -- .
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Verlagsort
Illustrationen
Illustrations, black & white
Maße
Höhe: 198 mm
Breite: 129 mm
Dicke: 12 mm
Gewicht
ISBN-13
978-0-7190-6481-4 (9780719064814)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Martine Beugnet is Lecturer in European Film Studies at Edinburgh University -- .
Introduction
1. Foreignness and the aesthetics of the unsaid
2. Screening exile
3. The mise en scene of desire: Towards a cinema of the senses
Conclusion
Filmography
Select bibliography -- .
