Space and being in contemporary French cinema /

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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, e...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Williams, James S., 1963- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York [New York] : Manchester University Press, 2013.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Subjectivity in motion pictures.
Perception > In motion pictures.
Space in motion pictures.
Motion pictures > France.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Preface : making space
  • 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
  • In lieu of a conclusion.

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