Del 7 - Contemporary Cinema

Cinema of Catherine Breillat

Inbunden, Engelska, 2017

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In The Cinema of Catherine Breillat, Bélot offers a detailed analysis of Breillat’s past and recent films. Breillat is one of the most internationally renowned French women filmmakers whose notoriety is built on her explicit representation of women’s sexuality. Most of her films rely on a female protagonist’s personal and intimate search of her self, characterised by her sexual journey. Facing censorship and controversy, Breillat’s films do not easily fit classification and place the viewer into an uncomfortable position. This study looks at Breillat as an independent cinema auteur entertaining a close relation with her films by exploring and positing women, from adolescence to adulthood, as sexual beings reflecting her films’ identity emanating from Breillat’s personal or intimate scenes.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2017-09-15
Mått155 x 235 x 15 mm
Vikt415 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieDel 7 i Contemporary Cinema
Antal sidor162
FörlagBrill
ISBN9789004326941

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AcknowledgementsList of IllustrationsIntroduction : Catherine Breillat’s ‘Scenes-in-Time’The Personal as the IntimateThe Intimate: ‘X’ for CensorshipThe Manuscript’s Structure and Synopsis1 ‘Le Cinema de Catherine Breillat’An Intertextual and Transgressive Cinema: Sex is Comedy and Une Vieille MaîtresseThe Script of ‘Intimate Scenes’ in Sex is ComedyBreillat’s Original Film Adaptation : Une Vieille Maitresse2 Viewing (Dis)-pleasureThe ‘Cinematic Spectator’ in Tapage Nocturne3 The Teen Years in Une vraie jeune fille, 36 fillette, and A ma soeur!The Repressive French SocietyRevisiting the Lolita SyndromeReal ‘Becomings’/Young Girls4 A Male Adolescent Sexual Journey‘The Male Crisis’? in Brève traversée5 Adult Female Sexual DesireThe Genre Film: Crime Drama in Sale comme un ange and Parfait Amour!Empowerment in Masochism: Romance and Anatomie de l’enferConclusionAdaptation of Fairy Tales: Reading and DreamingFairy Tales and Gender ExpectationsIntimacy in Catherine Breillat’s CinemaBibliographyFilmography

"This is a sharp, engaging volume, offering a complex feminist introduction to the films of this uncompromising cineaste."- G. A. Foster, Choice, 55.6, February 2018. "Sophie Be´lot’s book is to be welcomed as another passionate engagement with Breillat, more in line with some of the best, partisan, French work, by Claire Clouzot and others. These French studies come in close to the director’s auteur persona, responding to and defending Breillat’s seductive, yet contestatory, ethos and visual style. [...] a lovely book that presents a vivid, engaged apprehension of its subject."- Emma Wilson, French Studies, 73.1, January 2019.