ReFocus : : The Films of François Ozon /

ReFocus : : The Films of François Ozon / / Loïc Bourdeau.

Examines François Ozon, one of France’s most prolific and best known international (queer) directorsAnalyses films including Potiche, Frantz and By the Grace of God, and shows how Ozon’s work is deeply influenced by literature, cinema and musicDraws on recent theoretical developments in gender, quee...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Arts 2021
VerfasserIn:
Bourdeau, Loïc,
MitwirkendeR:
Bertram, Amy,
Bourdeau, Loïc,
Chaplin, Felicity,
Duffy, Helena,
Handyside, Fiona,
Kearney, Peadar,
Reeser, Todd W.,
Reis, Levilson C.,
Schilt, Thibaut,
Steele, Jamie,
Tasevska, Tamara,
Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
©2021
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:ReFocus: The International Directors Series : RFIDS
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Physical Description:1 online resource (232 p.) :; 32 B/W illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Figures
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction: In the Beginning Was the Word
  • Part I. The Politics of Form
  • 1. Queer Tyranny and Intertextuality in Gouttes d’eau sur pierres brûlantes: François Ozon Pays Homage to Master Fassbinder
  • 2. François Ozon’s Sitcom and Politics of Form
  • 3. Queering the Trenches: Homoerotic Overtones in Frantz
  • 4. The Crystal-image and Queer Ambiguity in Sous le sable
  • 5. French Ozon/Global Ozon: French Specificity and Globalisation in Jeune & jolie
  • Part II. (In)Formal Politics
  • 6. ‘The Scent of a Middle-class Woman’: Desire, Family and the Adolescent Imagination in François Ozon’s Dans la maison
  • 7. Bringing Up Baby in the Twenty-first Century: Le Refuge and the Ozonian Family
  • 8. Transing Dynamics: Ozon’s Une Nouvelle amie
  • 9. Sex Wars in Potiche: Womanhood Then and Now
  • 10. Female Creativity, Selfishness and Monstrosity in François Ozon’s Angel
  • 11. From Faits Divers to Grandes Affaires: Giving Voice to Sexual Abuse Survivors in Grâce à Dieu
  • Filmography
  • Index

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