| Claire Denis Contributor(s): Mayne, Judith (Author) |
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ISBN: 0252072383 ISBN-13: 9780252072383 Publisher: University of Illinois Press OUR PRICE: $20.90 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2005 Annotation: The themes underlying the work of a maverick female filmmaker. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Performing Arts | Film - History & Criticism |
| Dewey: 791.430 |
| LCCN: 2004023669 |
| Series: Contemporary Film Directors (Paperback) |
| Physical Information: 0.47" H x 5.6" W x 8.28" (0.62 lbs) 192 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Widely regarded as one of the most innovative and passionate filmmakers working in France today, Claire Denis has continued to make beautiful and challenging films since the 1988 release of her first feature, Chocolat. Judith Mayne's comprehensive study traces Denis's career and discusses her major feature films in rich detail. Born in Paris but raised in West Africa, Denis explores in her films the legacies of French colonialism and the complex relationships between sexuality, gender, and race. From the adult woman who observes her past as a child in Cameroon to the Lithuanian immigrant who arrives in Paris and watches a serial killer to the disgraced French Foreign Legionnaire attempting to make sense of his past, the subjects of Denis's films continually revisit themes of watching, bearing witness, and making contact, as well as displacement, masculinity, and the migratory subject. |