Space and being in contemporary French cinema

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Label

Space and being in contemporary French cinema

Statement of responsibility

James S. Williams

Creator

• Williams, James S., 1963-

Subject

• Motion pictures -- France
• Perception -- In motion pictures
• Space in motion pictures
• Subjectivity in motion pictures

Language

eng

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

Cataloging source

ERASA

Dewey number

791

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

PN1993.5.F8

LC item number

W55 2013

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• bibliography
• filmographies