The Films Of Claire Denis

Author : Marjorie Vecchio
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780857735997

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The Films of Claire Denis by Marjorie Vecchio Pdf

The films of Claire Denis probe the idea of global citizenship and trace the borderlines of family, desire, nationality and power. Her films, including Chocolat, Beau travail and White Material explore connections between national experience and individual circumstance, visualizing the complications of such dualities. Following a foreword by Wim Wenders, international contributors explore the themes she addresses in her films, such as kinship and landscape, neo-colonialism and New French Extremity. Original interviews with an editor, actor and two composers familiar with Denis's working style and with Denis herself, also reveal fresh facets of this intrepid filmmaker.

Author : Martine Beugnet
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2004-09-04
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0719064813

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Claire Denis by Martine Beugnet Pdf

Since her remarkable debut "Chocolat", Claire Denis has been acclaimed as one of the most original filmmakers in France. This title provides a thematic and stylistic framework within which to consider her work, as well as addressing issues such as French national identity and culture in relation to Denis's work.

Author : Marjorie Vecchio
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780857725233

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The Films of Claire Denis by Marjorie Vecchio Pdf

The films of Claire Denis, one of the most challenging and respected of contemporary filmmakers, probe the psyche of global citizenship, tracing the borderlines of family, desire, nationality and power. With subtlety, depth and at times minimalism and abstraction, her films - including "Chocolat", "Beau travail" and "White Material" - explore connections between national experience and individual circumstance, visualizing the complications of such dualities. Following a Foreword by Wim Wenders, with whom Denis worked prior to making her own movies, international contributors explore the themes she addresses in her films, such as kinship and landscape, Neo-Colonialism and New French Extremity. Original interviews with an editor, actor and two composers most familiar with the working style of Denis, and with Denis herself, also reveal fresh facets of this intrepid filmmaker. As Wim Wenders writes in his Foreword: 'This book will hopefully throw many new lights on the amazing director that Klarchen [Claire Denis] became, a path she carved out all on her own.'

Author : Judith Mayne
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2005-03-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780252096396

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Claire Denis by Judith Mayne Pdf

Widely regarded as one of the most innovative and passionate filmmakers working in France today, Claire Denis has continued to make beautiful and challenging films since the 1988 release of her first feature, Chocolat. Judith Mayne's comprehensive study of these films traces Denis's career and discusses her major feature films in rich detail. Born in Paris but having grown up in Africa, Denis explores in her films the legacies of French colonialism and the complex relationships between sexuality, gender, and race. From the adult woman who observes her past as a child in Cameroon to the Lithuanian immigrant who arrives in Paris and watches a serial killer to the disgraced French Foreign Legionnaire attempting to make sense of his past, the subjects of Denis's films continually revisit themes of watching, bearing witness, and making contact, as well as displacement, masculinity, and the migratory subject.

Author : Judith Mayne
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2005-03-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0252029917

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Claire Denis by Judith Mayne Pdf

Widely regarded as one of the most innovative and passionate filmmakers working in France today, Claire Denis has continued to make beautiful and challenging films since the 1988 release of her first feature, Chocolat. Judith Mayne's comprehensive study traces Denis's career and discusses her major feature films in rich detail. Born in Paris but raised in West Africa, Denis explores in her films the legacies of French colonialism and the complex relationships between sexuality, gender, and race. From the adult woman who observes her past as a child in Cameroon to the Lithuanian immigrant who arrives in Paris and watches a serial killer to the disgraced French Foreign Legionnaire attempting to make sense of his past, the subjects of Denis's films continually revisit themes of watching, bearing witness, and making contact, as well as displacement, masculinity, and the migratory subject.

Author : Kristin Lene Hole
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2015-12-31
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781474409520

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Towards a Feminist Cinematic Ethics by Kristin Lene Hole Pdf

Develops an account of non-normative feminist cinematic ethics and a fresh methodological approach to film-philosophy.

Author : Michael Omasta,Isabella Reicher
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Cinematography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105122543536

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Claire Denis by Michael Omasta,Isabella Reicher Pdf

Author : Herman Melville
Publisher : Modernista
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2023-11-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789180943833

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Billy Budd by Herman Melville Pdf

The 18th century is a turbulent time for the British Royal Navy, with several mutinies following each other and the looming French Navy on the horizon. Young Billy Budd is pressed into naval service against will, with his innocence and charm belying the harsh realities of life at sea. The good-natured and physically impressive Billy quickly becomes the embodiment of both admiration and envy among the crew. As the narrative unfolds, Billy’s moral integrity clashes with the strict and unforgiving naval code, leading to a tragic confrontation with the conflicted master-at-arms, John Claggart. Herman Melville crafts a gripping tale that explores the complexities of morality, justice, and the inherent tensions between the individual and the institution. HERMAN MELVILLE [1819-1891] was an American poet and novelist. Melville was not popular during his own lifetime and largely forgotten upon his death, however, during the 20th century his work was rediscovered and his novel Moby-Dick [1851] is today considered one of the great American novels.

Author : Alexandra West
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-19
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476625119

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Films of the New French Extremity by Alexandra West Pdf

The films of the New French Extremity have been reviled by critics but adored by fans and filmmakers. Known for graphically brutal depictions of sex and violence, the subgenre emerged from the French art-house scene in the late 1990s and became a cult phenomenon, eventually merging into the horror genre where it became associated with American torture porn. Decidedly French in flavor, the films seek to reveal the dark side of French society. This book provides an in-depth study of New French Extremity, focusing on such films as Trouble Every Day (2001), Irreversible (2002), Twentynine Palms (2003), High Tension (2003) and Martyrs (2008). The author explores the social implications of cinematic cruelty presented not as "violent films" but as "films about violence."

Author : Tim Palmer
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2011-03-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0819570001

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Brutal Intimacy by Tim Palmer Pdf

Brutal Intimacy is the first book to explore the fascinating films of contemporary France, ranging from mainstream genre spectaculars to arthouse experiments, and from wildly popular hits to films that deliberately alienate the viewer. Twenty-first-century France is a major source of international cinema—diverse and dynamic, embattled yet prosperous—a national cinema offering something for everyone. Tim Palmer investigates France’s growing population of women filmmakers, its buoyant vanguard of first-time filmmakers, the rise of the controversial cinema du corps, and France’s cinema icons: auteurs like Olivier Assayas, Claire Denis, Bruno Dumont, Gaspar Noé, and stars such as Vincent Cassel and Jean Dujardin. Analyzing dozens of breakthrough films, Brutal Intimacy situates infamous titles alongside many yet to be studied in the English language. Drawing on interviews and the testimony of leading film artists, Brutal Intimacy promises to be an influential treatment of French cinema today, its evolving rivalry with Hollywood, and its ambitious pursuits of audiences in Europe, North America, and around the world.

Author : Stefano Baschiera
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-28
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781474428941

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Film and Domestic Space by Stefano Baschiera Pdf

Drawing on a broad range of theoretical disciplines - and with case studies of directors such as Chantal Akerman, Agnès Varda, Claire Denis and Todd Haynes, Amos Gitai, Martin Ritt, John Ford, Ila Bêka and Louise Lemoine - this book goes beyond the representational approach to the analysis of domestic space in cinema, in order to look at it as a dispositif.

Author : Martine Beugnet
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Art
ISBN : 0809328569

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Cinema and Sensation by Martine Beugnet Pdf

"Cinema and Sensation: " "French Film and the Art of Transgression" looks at a much-debated phenomenon in contemporary cinema: the reemergence of filmmaking practices (and, by extension, of theoretical approaches) that give precedence to cinema as the medium of the senses.France offers an intriguing case in point here. A specific sense of momentum comes from the release, in close succession, of a series of films that exemplify a characteristic awareness of cinema s sensory impact and transgressive nature: "Adieu"; "A ma soeur"; "Baise-moi"; "Beau Travail"; "La Blessure"; "La Captive"; "Dans ma peau"; "Demonlover"; "L Humanite"; "Flandres"; "L Intrus"; "Les Invisibles"; "Lady Chatterley"; "Lecons de tenebres"; "Romance"; "Sombre"; "Tiresia"; "Trouble Every Day"; "Twentynine Palms"; "Vendredi soir"; "La Vie nouvelle"; "Wild Side"; and "Zidane, un portrait du XXIeme siecle." These films, among others, typify a willingness to explore cinema s unique capacity to move us both viscerally and intellectually.Martine Beugnet focuses on the crucial and fertile overlaps that occur between experimental and mainstream cinema. Her book draws on the writings of Deleuze, Merleau-Ponty, and Bataille, among others, but first and foremost, she develops her arguments from the films themselves, from the comprehensive description of specific sequences, techniques, and motifs that allows us to engage with the works as material events and as thinking processes. In turn, she demonstrates how the films, envisaged as forms of embodied thought, offer alternative ways of approaching today s most burning sociocultural debatesfrom the growing supremacy of technology, to globalization, exile, and exclusion."

Author : Nikolaj Luebecker
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2015-05-19
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780748698004

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Feel-Bad Film by Nikolaj Luebecker Pdf

An analysis of what contemporary directors seek to attain by putting their spectators in a position of strong discomfort

Author : Todd McGowan
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780791480366

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The Real Gaze by Todd McGowan Pdf

Examines the gaze in Lacanian film theory.

Author : Tyler Edward Stovall,Georges Van den Abbeele
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 0739106473

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French Civilization and Its Discontents by Tyler Edward Stovall,Georges Van den Abbeele Pdf

What happens when the study of French is no longer coterminous with the study of France? French Civilization and Its Discontents explores the ways in which considerations of difference, especially colonialism, postcolonialism, and race, have shaped French culture and French studies in the modern era. Rejecting traditional assimilationist notions of French national identity, contributors to this groundbreaking volume demonstrate how literature, history, and other aspects of what is considered French civilization have been shaped by global processes of creolization and differentiation. This book ably demonstrates the necessity of studying France and the Francophone world together, and of recognizing not only the presence of France in the Francophone world but also the central place occupied by the Francophone world in world literature and history.