Claire Denis

Editeur : Manchester University Press
Parution : 2004-06-24 10:37:41
Nombre de pages : 224

Publication | Table des matières | Critiques

Résumé

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.

Table des matières

Introduction
1. Foreignness and the aesthetics of the unsaid
2. Screening exile
3. The mise en scène of desire: Towards a cinema of the senses
Conclusion
Filmography
Select bibliography

Critiques

  • “This important volume from an authoritative international team of authors sheds significant new light on the comparative development of post-war Conservatism in the western world.”
    – Stuart Ball, Professor Emeritus, University of Leicester, UK
  • “The rich essays collected in this illuminating volume show that the rise of right-wing politics in the United Kingdom, the United States, and France since the 1970s was a remarkably transnational phenomenon. As they attacked social democracy and cultural pluralism, right-wing movements borrowed ideas, visions, vocabularies, and tactics from each other, adapting them to their own national idioms and using advances in one country to win advances elsewhere. Anyone interested in confronting the problems that have proliferated in the wake the right’s reconfiguration of politics – surging inequality, belligerent ethno-nationalism, worker disempowerment and insecurity, and lost faith in the capacity for democratic self-government – has much to learn about the origins of these problems from this important book.”
    – Joseph A. McCartin, Georgetown University, USA, author of Collision Course