ReFocus: The Films of Denis Villeneuve /

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

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...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (238 p.) :; 34 B/W illustrations 34 B&W images
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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

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