ReFocus: The Films of Claire Denis / / ed. by Peter Sloane.
Updates and reapplies film theory to French director Claire Denis's films, with a particular focus on her most recent workFeatures essays on all of Denis's fiction and documentaryWorld leading Denis scholarsInnovative readings of Denis in the 21st CenturyReFocus: The Films of Claire Denis...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2023] 2023 |
| Year of Publication: | 2023 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | ReFocus: The International Directors Series : RFIDS
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (320 p.) :; 45 B/W illustrations 45 b&w images |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Figures
- List of Contributors
- Introduction: Ambiguous Transgressions
- 1 L'eau Life: The Hydrous and Haptic Cinema of Claire Denis
- 2 Good Work or Exploitation? Beau travail and 35 rhums and the Fear of Individualism
- 3 A Thing on a Friday Night: Objects and Desire in Vendredi soir
- 4 'A lover's hand? A breath, An abyss': Aloneness in Claire Denis
- 5 Claire Denis, Corporeality and New Weird
- 6 The Limits of Life: Experimentation, Bodily Consent and Bioethics in Trouble Every Day (2001) and High Life (2018)
- 7 Trans-generic Dramas of Non-disclosure: Equilibrium, the 'General Viewer' and the Refusal of Meaning in the Films of Clair Denis
- 8 Writing Female Desire: From Vendredi soir to Avec amour et acharnement
- 9 In the Cracks: Claire Denis's Cinematic Choreographies
- 10 Stars and Acting in Claire Denis's Films since 2010
- 11 Life Imitates Art: The Intimacy of Family in the Work of Claire Denis and Yasujiro Ozu
- 12 'The Stranger and the Surprise': Hospitality, Community and Coming to Our Senses in Vendredi soir
- 13 Claire Denis's Beaux Familles
- Index