James S. Williams

Space and being in contemporary French cinema

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book brings together five French directors who have established themselves as among the most exciting working today: Bruno Dumont, Robert Guediguian, Laurent Cantet, Abdellatif Kechiche, and Claire Denis. It explores their unique strategies of representation and framing that reflect a profound investment in the geophysical world.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 448g
• ISBN-13: 9781784993788
• ISBN-10: 1784993786
• Artikelnr.: 45008768

Autorenporträt

James S. Williams is Professor of Modern French Literature and Film at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface: Making space 1. Space, cinema, being 2. Topographies of being:
space, sensation, and spectatorship in the films of Bruno Dumont 3. Requiem
for a city: the symbolics of space in the cinema of Robert Guédiguian 4.
Heading nowhere: framing space and social exclusion in the films of Laurent
Cantet 5. Re-siting the Republic: Abdellatif Kechiche and the politics of
reappropriation and renewal 6. Beyond the Other: grafting space and human
relations in the trans-cinema of Claire Denis 7. In lieu of a conclusion
Bibliography Select filmography Index