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Space and being in contemporary French cinema /

This book brings together for the first time five French directors who have established themselves as among the most exciting and significant working today: Bruno Dumont, Robert Guédiguian, Laurent Cantet, Abdellatif Kechiche and Claire Denis. Whatever their chosen habitats or shifting terrains, ea...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Williams, James S., 1963- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Manchester ; New York : New York : Manchester University Press ; Distributed in the U.S. exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Space, cinema, being
  • Topographies of being : space, sensation, and spectatorship in the films of Bruno Dumont
  • Requiem for a city : the symbolics of space in the cinema of Robert Guédiguian
  • Heading nowhere : framing space and social exclusion in the films of Laurent Cantet
  • Re-siting the Republic : Abdellatif Kechiche and the politics of reappropriation and renewal
  • Beyond the Other : grafting space and human relations in the trans-cinema of Claire Denis.