Space and being in contemporary French cinema / James S. Williams.
2013
PN1993.5.F7 W56 2013 (Mapit)
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Title
Space and being in contemporary French cinema / James S. Williams.
Author
Williams, James S., 1963-
ISBN
9780719084324
0719084326
0719084326
Imprint
Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press ; New York : distributed in the U.S. exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
Language
English
Description
xvii, 333 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Call Number
PN1993.5.F7 W56 2013
Dewey Decimal Classification
791
Summary
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, each of these highly distinctive auteurs has developed unique strategies of representation and framing that reflect a profound investment in the geophysical world. The book proposes that we think about cinematographic space in its many different forms simultaneously (screenspace, landscape, narrative space, soundscape, spectatorial space). Through a series of close and original readings of selected films, it posits a new 'space of the cinematic subject'. Accessible and wide-ranging, this volume opens up new areas of critical enquiry in the expanding interdisciplinary field of space studies.
Note
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, each of these highly distinctive auteurs has developed unique strategies of representation and framing that reflect a profound investment in the geophysical world. The book proposes that we think about cinematographic space in its many different forms simultaneously (screenspace, landscape, narrative space, soundscape, spectatorial space). Through a series of close and original readings of selected films, it posits a new 'space of the cinematic subject'. Accessible and wide-ranging, this volume opens up new areas of critical enquiry in the expanding interdisciplinary field of space studies.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [294]-310), filmography (p. [311]-320), and index.
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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.
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.