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Claire Denis /

Widely regarded as one of the most innovative and passionate filmmakers working in France today, Claire Denis has continued to make beautiful and challenging films since the 1988 release of her first feature, Chocolat. Judith Mayne's comprehensive study of these films traces Denis's career...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Mayne, Judith (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2005]
Series:Contemporary film directors.
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Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:Widely regarded as one of the most innovative and passionate filmmakers working in France today, Claire Denis has continued to make beautiful and challenging films since the 1988 release of her first feature, Chocolat. Judith Mayne's comprehensive study of these films traces Denis's career and discusses her major feature films in rich detail. Born in Paris but having grown up in Africa, Denis explores in her films the legacies of French colonialism and the complex relationships between sexuality, gender, and race. From the adult woman who observes her past as a child in Cameroon to the Lithuanian immigrant who arrives in Paris and watches a serial killer to the disgraced French Foreign Legionnaire attempting to make sense of his past, the subjects of Denis's films continually revisit themes of watching, bearing witness, and making contact, as well as displacement, masculinity, and the migratory subject.
Physical Description:1 online resource.
Bibliography:Filmography: pages [149]-153.
Includes bibliographical references (pages [155]-162) and index.
ISBN:9780252096396
0252096398
9781461958406
1461958407