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This is the first English-language book on controversial female director Catherine Breillat, whose films include Romance, A ma soeur! (Fat Girl), Anatomy of Hell and The Last Mistress. This volume explores the director's complex relation to religion and to feminism, and it examines the differen...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Keesey, Douglas (Author)
Other Authors: Holmes, Diana (Editor), Ingram, Robert (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2016.
Series:French film directors.
Subjects:
Breillat, Catherine > Criticism and interpretation
Breillat, Catherine > Criticism and interpretation.
Breillat, Catherine.
Film Scripts & Screenplays.
PERFORMING ARTS > Film & Video > History & Criticism.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > General.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • List of plates
  • Series editors' foreword
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • 1. Female virgins and the shaming gaze
  • 2. Sisters as one soul in two bodies
  • 3. Masculine tendencies and macho violence
  • 4. Staging masochism, facing shame
  • Conclusion
  • Filmography
  • Select bibliography
  • Index.

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