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

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 performanc...

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