Description
Book SynopsisThis book brings together five French directors who have established themselves as among the most exciting working today: Bruno Dumont, Robert Guédiguian, Laurent Cantet, Abdellatif Kechiche, and Claire Denis. It explores their unique strategies of representation and framing that reflect a profound investment in the geophysical world.
Trade ReviewSpace and Being in Contemporary French Cinema undertakes an ambitious and compelling examination of the spaces of recent French cinema that delves into the ways that space is framed, inhabited, and experienced visually and auditorily. While firmly in the lineage of film studies’ spatial turn, Space and Being engages in original and insightful ways with cinematic theories of space by analyzing the effects created by use of the hors-champs, motion, sound, color, and intertextuality....Space and Being remains essential for specialists of contemporary French cinema and will pique the interest of all scholars working in all areas of contemporary French and Francophone studies. -- .
Table of ContentsPreface: Making Space
1. Space, Cinema, Being
i. Space in Cinema
ii. Space in Modern French Thought
iii. The Space of the Cinematic Subject
iv. Space and Place in French Cinema: A Tradition
v. Space and Being in Contemporary French Cinema
2. Topographies of Being: Space, Sensation, and Spectatorship in the Films 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
6. Beyond the Other: Grafting Space and Human Relations in the Trans-cinema of Claire Denis
7. In Lieu of a Conclusion
Bibliography
Select Filmography
Index
