ReFocus: The Films of Denis Villeneuve / / ed. by Jeri English.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Arts 2023
• MitwirkendeR: Dyer, Kester,; English, Jeri,; Frohlick, Alex,; Gelly, Christophe,; Kreitler, Melanie,; Longfellow, Brenda,; Marshall, Kingsley,; McCrossin, Trip,; McDonald, Terrance H.,; Pascal, Marie,; Ransom, Amy J.,; Roche, David,; Sanders, Emily,
• HerausgeberIn: English, Jeri,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: ReFocus: The International Directors Series : RFIDS
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (238 p.) :; 34 B/W illustrations 34 B&W images

Critically examines the work of Québécois filmmakers Denis VilleneuveEngages with all of Villeneuve’s feature films (some individually and some comparatively), including those that have up until now received little critical attentionProposes original analyses of all the films from multiple critical and theoretical approaches (thematic, sociocultural, formal, ontological, feminist, allegorical, narrative, spectatorial, intertextual) which both contribute to current scholarship and serve as a resource for undergraduate and graduate studentsOffers a clear overview of Villeneuve’s contributions to contemporary cinema, both in a Québécois context and with regards to his Hollywood filmsThe nimble, creative spirit of Québécois screenwriter and filmmaker, Denis Villeneuve, is reflected in his varied body of work. Villeneuve explores questions of alterity and interculturality, of language and identity, of memory and forgetting, of violence and retribution, throughout his filmography: Un 32 août sur terre (1998), Maelström (2000), Polytechnique (2009), Incendies (2010), Enemy (2013), Prisoners (2013), Sicario (2015), Arrival (2016), Blade Runner 2049 (2017) and Dune: Part 1 (2021).This edited collection brings together original works of scholarship on all of Villeneuve’s feature films from different theoretical approaches, in order to deepen our understanding of this important and yet relatively understudied director; read individually or as a collective whole, these studies reveal important elements of Villeneuve’s filmic practice, as well as the evolutions of his oeuvre.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Denis Villeneuve, Québécois and Citizen of the World -- Chapter 2 Science Fiction, National Rebirth and Messianism in Un 32 août sur terre -- Chapter 3 Close-ups and Gros Plans: Denis Villeneuve the Macrophage -- Chapter 4 Reproductive Futurism and the Woman Problem in the Films of Denis Villeneuve -- Chapter 5 Filming Missing Bodies: ‘Bodiless-Character Films’ and the Presence of Absence in Denis Villeneuve’s Cinema -- Chapter 6 Life, Risk and the Structuring Force of Exposure in Maelström -- Chapter 7 The Self as Other and the Other as Self: Identity, Doubling and Misrecognition in Incendies, Enemy and Blade Runner 2049 -- Chapter 8 Villeneuve’s Hidden Monsters: Representations of Evil in Prisoners and Sicario -- Chapter 9 Beyond Complexity: Narrative Experimentation and Genre Development in Enemy -- Chapter 10 Subjectivity and Cinematic Space in Blade Runner 2049 -- Chapter 11 Mere Data Makes a Man: Artificial Intelligences in Blade Runner 2049 -- Chapter 12 Shortening the Way: Villeneuve’s Dune as Film and as Project -- Filmography -- Bibliography -- Index