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1 online resource (352 pages) |
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Manchester Film Studies |
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SPACE AND BEING IN CONTEMPORARY FRANCH CINEMA; Half Title Page; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; Preface: Making space; 1. Space, cinema, being; 2. Topographies of being: space, sensation, and spectatorship in the cinema of Bruno Dumont; 3. Requiem for a city: the symbolics of space in the cinema of Robert Guédiguian; 4. Heading nowhere: framing space and social exclusion in the films of Laurent Cantet; 5. Re-siting the Republic: Abdellatif Kechiche and the politics of reappropriation and renewal |
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6. Beyond the Other: grafting space and human relations in the trans-cinema of Claire Denis7. In lieu of a conclusion; Bibliography; Select filmography; Index |
| 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 |
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Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index |
| Notes |
In English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Motion pictures -- France.
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Space in motion pictures.
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Perception -- In motion pictures
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Subjectivity in motion pictures.
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PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism.
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Motion pictures
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Space in motion pictures
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Subjectivity in motion pictures
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France
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781526102218 |
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1526102218 |
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