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"Saccharine for some, poignant for others, Jacques Demy's 'enchanted' world is familiar to generations of French audiences accustomed to watching Christmas repeats of his fairytale Peau d'âne (1970) or seeing Catherine Deneuve and Françoise Dorleac prance and pirouette in...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Waldron, Darren
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press, 2015.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Demy, Jacques.
Regissörer.
Motion picture producers and directors.
PERFORMING ARTS > Reference.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Entertainment & Performing Arts.
Producteurs et realisateurs de cinema > France > Biographies.
Motion picture producers and directors > France > Biography.
France.
Biographies.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Jacques Demy; Half Title Page; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of plates; Series editors' foreword; Acknowledgements; Introduction
  • 'Un demi, Jacques, bien frais, avec de la mousse': background and early filmmaking; 1. Jacques Demy, the Nouvelle Vague and beyond; 2. Melodic reconfigurations: Demy's musicals; 3. Fantasy and its disenchantments: fairytale, fable and myth in the Demy-monde; 4. Gender and sexuality in the Demy-monde; 5. Mythologising Demy; Concluding remarks; Filmography; Select bibliography; Index.

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