Performative Opacity in the Work of Isabelle Huppert / / ed. by Iggy Cortez, Ian Fleishman.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Arts 2023
• MitwirkendeR: Cortez, Iggy,
• HerausgeberIn: Cortez, Iggy,; Fleishman, Ian,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (168 p.) :; 23 B/W illustrations

Engages with the career of Isabelle Huppert, a major figure in French, European, and World CinemaOffers analytic frameworks for performance aesthetics in dialogue with critical theoryOffers new readings of important films through the lens of Huppert’s actingUses Huppert to theorise screen performance aesthetics in dialogue with debates in the humanities on negativity, affect, and genderPerformative Opacity in the Work of Isabelle Huppert argues that the career of this singular French actor—constituting a corpus of well over a hundred films—offers a unique testing ground for current approaches in film studies and affect studies.Attention to Huppert’s performances can reframe recent discussions on the social and cultural dimensions of emotion and normativity through a compelling paradox: her roles tend to express grandiose and overwhelming conditions central to debates in the humanities—negativity, dispossession, trauma—but through elusive and at times resistant or diminutive forms of expression: what J. Hoberman once called her genius

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction: Performing the Inassimilable -- 1. The Unknown Huppert -- 2. Huppert in the Ozon-Machine: Melodrama and Meta-Acting in 8 Femmes -- 3. Alter/Ego: Isabelle Huppert as Werner Schroeter’s Double -- 4. Laughing in the Face of Death: The Comedic Force of Isabelle Huppert in La Cérémonie -- 5. White Mothers on Colonised Land, or What Isabelle Huppert Makes Visible? -- 6. Isabelle Huppert’s Caring, Carefree, Careless Abortionist in Claude Chabrol’s Une affaire de femmes -- 7. Horn/Huppert/Horn -- Bibliography -- Index