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Book Performative Opacity in the Work of Isabelle Huppert

Download or read book Performative Opacity in the Work of Isabelle Huppert written by Cesar Ignacio Cortez and published by EUP. This book was released on 2023-05-31 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Engages with the career of Isabelle Huppert, a major figure in French, European, and World Cinema

Book Isabelle Huppert

Download or read book Isabelle Huppert written by Darren Waldron and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2021-01-14 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring a lineup of distinguished academics, this collection remedies the absence of scholarly attention to French cinematic legend Isabelle Huppert. This volume deconstructs Huppert's star persona and public profile through critical and theoretical analysis of her various screen roles-from her very early appearances alongside Romy Schneider in César et Rosalie (Sautet, 1972) and Gérard Depardieu in Les Valseuses (1974) to a number of celebrated collaborations with high-profile European auteurs such as Catherine Breillat, Claire Denis, Jean-Luc Godard, Michael Haneke and Joseph Losey, and with more popular auteurs such as Claude Chabrol and François Ozon. Known for a cerebral internalization of characterization, a technical mastery of extreme emotions, and a singular brand of icy intellectualism, Huppert's performances continue to impress, stun and surprise audiences. By focusing on several theoretical questions that relate to image, identity, sexuality and place, this volume situates Huppert's star persona in the more practical creative contexts of performance, authorship, genre and collaboration. This volume contrasts complementary critical accounts of her stardom by working across the different periods and territories of her career.

Book Isabelle Huppert

Download or read book Isabelle Huppert written by Nick Rees-Roberts and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Deconstructs Huppert's star persona and public profile through critical and theoretical analysis of her various screen roles"--

Book Isabelle Huppert  Modernist Performance

Download or read book Isabelle Huppert Modernist Performance written by FLORENCE. JACOBOWITZ and published by . This book was released on 2024-10-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book An Aesthetics of Injury

Download or read book An Aesthetics of Injury written by Ian Fleishman and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2018-03-15 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Aesthetics of Injury exposes wounding as a foundational principle of modernism in literature and film. Theorizing the genre of the narrative wound—texts that aim not only to depict but also to inflict injury—Ian Fleishman reveals harm as an essential aesthetic strategy in ten exemplary authors and filmmakers: Charles Baudelaire, Franz Kafka, Georges Bataille, Jean Genet, Hélène Cixous, Ingeborg Bachmann, Elfriede Jelinek, Werner Schroeter, Michael Haneke, and Quentin Tarantino. Violence in the modernist mode, an ostensible intrusion of raw bodily harm into the artwork, aspires to transcend its own textuality, and yet, as An Aesthetics of Injury establishes, the wound paradoxically remains the essence of inscription. Fleishman thus shows how the wound, once the modernist emblem par excellence of an immediate aesthetic experience, comes to be implicated in a postmodern understanding of reality reduced to ceaseless mediation. In so doing, he demonstrates how what we think of as the most real object, the human body, becomes indistinguishable from its “nonreal” function as text. At stake in this tautological textual model is the heritage of narrative thought: both the narratological workings of these texts (how they tell stories) and the underlying epistemology exposed (whether these narrativists still believe in narrative at all). With fresh and revealing readings of canonical authors and filmmakers seldom treated alongside one another, An Aesthetics of Injury is important reading for scholars working on literary or cinematic modernism and the postmodern, philosophy, narratology, body culture studies, queer and gender studies, trauma studies, and cultural theory.

Book Geraldine Chaplin

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  • Author : Steven Rybin
  • Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
  • Release : 2020-09-21
  • ISBN : 1474427987
  • Pages : 264 pages

Download or read book Geraldine Chaplin written by Steven Rybin and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-21 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyses the distinctive screen art of Geraldine Chaplin and uncover parallels between her performances and her father's work on film and thereby explores the rich and surprising relationships between art cinema and silent film comedy, and between modernist and classical cinematic performance.

Book The Village Voice Film Guide

Download or read book The Village Voice Film Guide written by Village Voice and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2010-12-15 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For decades the Village Voice set the benchmark for passionate, critical, and unique film coverage. Including reviews by some of America’s most respected critics, The Village Voice Film Guide compiles spirited landmark reviews of the Voice’s selection of the 150 greatest films ever made. Collecting some of the best writing on film ever put on paper, this is a perfect book for film buffs.

Book Acting Across Borders

Download or read book Acting Across Borders written by Alberto Zambenedetti and published by . This book was released on 2022-11-30 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studying the careers of popular actors Amedeo Nazzari and Alberto Sordi, Acting Across Borders explores the question of how Italian cinema from the 1930s to 1980s has considered human mobility. Through close readings of a selection of films, Alberto Zambenedetti examines the concept of italianità (Italian-ness) as manifested in contexts related to migration, diaspora, exile, tourism, travel and their supporting infrastructures. In this wide-ranging study, the methodologies of Film Studies and the Mobilities Framework are combined to illuminate an undertheorised yet vital tradition in the history of the national cinema. Alberto Zambenedetti is Assistant Professor in the Department of Italian Studies and the Cinema Studies Institute, University of Toronto.

Book Remote Control

    Book Details:
  • Author : Barbara Kruger
  • Publisher : MIT Press
  • Release : 1994
  • ISBN : 9780262611060
  • Pages : 268 pages

Download or read book Remote Control written by Barbara Kruger and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Barbara Kruger is a talking viewer with a hit-and-run attitude. Her vivid commentary on TV and film will galvanize even the most jaded with its social clarity and its savvy sense of cultural justice.

Book Screening the Unwatchable

Download or read book Screening the Unwatchable written by A. Grønstad and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-11-20 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracing the rise of extreme art cinema across films from Lars von Trier's The Idiots to Michael Haneke's Caché, Asbjørn Grønstad revives the debate about the role of negation and aesthetics, and reframes the concept of spectatorship in ethical terms.

Book Complaint

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  • Author : Avital Ronell
  • Publisher : University of Illinois Press
  • Release : 2018-04-02
  • ISBN : 0252050231
  • Pages : 264 pages

Download or read book Complaint written by Avital Ronell and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2018-04-02 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "It is not, nor it cannot come to good. But break, my heart, for I must hold my tongue." Thus spoke Hamlet, one of the great kvetchers of literature. Every day, gripers challenge our patience and compassion. Yet Pollyannas rile us up with their grotesque contentment and unfathomable rejection of protest. Avital Ronell considers how literature and philosophy treat bellyachers, wailers, and grumps--and the complaints they lavish on the rest of us. Combining her trademark jazzy panache with a fearless range of readings, Ronell opens a dialog with readers that discusses thinkers with whom she has directly engaged. Beginning with Hamlet, and with a candid awareness of her own experiences, Ronell proceeds to show how complaining is aggravated, distracted, stifled, and transformed. She moves on to the exemplary complaints of Friedrich Nietzsche, Hannah Arendt, and Barbara Johnson and examines the complaint-riven history of deconstruction. Infused with the author's trademark wit, Complaint takes friends, colleagues, and all of us on a courageous philosophical journey.

Book Valences of Interdisciplinarity

Download or read book Valences of Interdisciplinarity written by Raphael Foshay and published by Athabasca University Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essays on interdisciplinary theory, research, and teaching.

Book Diana Dors

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  • Author : Martin Shingler
  • Publisher : International Film Stars
  • Release : 2023-08-31
  • ISBN : 9781474474009
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Diana Dors written by Martin Shingler and published by International Film Stars. This book was released on 2023-08-31 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines Diana Dors' film career, acting method, star image and enduring celebrity

Book Feel Bad Film

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  • Author : Nikolaj Luebecker
  • Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
  • Release : 2015-05-19
  • ISBN : 0748698000
  • Pages : 192 pages

Download or read book Feel Bad Film written by Nikolaj Luebecker and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2015-05-19 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An analysis of what contemporary directors seek to attain by putting their spectators in a position of strong discomfort

Book Holocaust Film

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  • Author : Terri Ginsberg
  • Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
  • Release : 2009-03-26
  • ISBN : 1443806803
  • Pages : 225 pages

Download or read book Holocaust Film written by Terri Ginsberg and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2009-03-26 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This timely new monograph takes as its starting point the provocative contention that Holocaust film scholarship has been marginalized academically despite the crucial role Holocaust film has played in fostering international awareness of the Nazi genocide and scholarly understandings of cinematic power. The book suggests political and economic motivations for this seeming paradox, the ideological parameters of which are evident in debates and controversies over Holocaust films themselves, and around Holocaust culture in general. Lending particular attention to four exemplary Holocaust “art” films (Korczak [Poland, 1990], The Quarrel [Canada, 1990], Entre Nous [France, 1983], and Balagan [Germany, 1994]), this book breaks disciplinary ground by drawing critical connections between public and scholarly debates over Holocaust representation, and the often sophisticated cinematic structures lending aesthetic shape to them in today’s global arena.

Book Coming Out

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  • Author : Kyle Frackman
  • Publisher : Camden House German Film Classics
  • Release : 2022-03-28
  • ISBN : 9781640140899
  • Pages : 96 pages

Download or read book Coming Out written by Kyle Frackman and published by Camden House German Film Classics. This book was released on 2022-03-28 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the creation, context, and significance of the first and only East German feature film about homosexuality.

Book The Cinema of Louis Malle

Download or read book The Cinema of Louis Malle written by Philippe Met and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-11 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arguably a pioneer of the French New Wave (with Ascenseur pour l’échafaud, 1957) Louis Malle went on to enjoy an acclaimed yet provocative and versatile transatlantic career. This collection of original essays proposes to reassess his richly eclectic and boldly subversive oeuvre and redress the surprising critical neglect it has suffered over the years. It does so through a combination of transversal and monographic analyses that use a variety of critical lenses and theoretical tools in order to examine Malle’s documentaries as well as his fiction features (and, more importantly, the constant shuttling and uniquely persistent cross-pollination between those two cinematic approaches), illuminate the profound, lasting dialogue his films entertained with literature and theater, bring to the fore their sustained, albeit often oblique autobiographical thrust along with their scathing sociopolitical critique, and scrutinize the alternating use of stars and non-professional actors. In addition, the volume features an exclusive interview with the acclaimed playwright John Guare (a close friend and collaborator of Louis Malle’s who scripted Atlantic City) and is bookended by a foreword by Volker Schlöndorff and an afterword by Wes Anderson, two renowned filmmakers who articulate their admiration for, and the seminal influence of, their predecessor.