Catherine Dousteyssier-Khoze

Claude Chabrol's Aesthetics of Opacity (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Claude Chabrol's cinema is generally associated with a specific type of psychological thriller, one set in the French provinces and fascinated with murder, incest, fragmented families, unstable spaces and inscrutable female characters. But Chabrol's films are both deceptively accessible and deeply reflexive, and in this innovative reappraisal of his filmography Catherine Dousteyssier-Khoze explores the Chabrol who was influenced by Balzac, Magritte and Stanley Kubrick. Bringing to the fore Chabrol's 'aesthetic of opacity', the book deconstructs the apparent clarity and comfort of his chosen genre, encouraging the viewer to reflect on the relationship between illusion and reality, and the status of the film image itself.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. November 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780748692620
• Artikelnr.: 54674414

Autorenporträt

Catherine Dousteyssier-Khoze is Reader in French at Durham University. She specializes in (19th-century) French literature and French film. She is also the author of a début novel, La logique de l'amanite (Grasset, 2015).

Inhaltsangabe

List of illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1: Contexts and Influences
Chapter 2: Chabrol and Genres
Chapter 3: The Human Beast
Chapter 4: Family Secrets
Chapter 5: Chabrolean spaces as heterotopias of crisis
Chapter 6: Through the Looking Glass: Chabrol's 'crystal-image'
Conclusion: Towards an Aesthetics of Visual Opacity