{"product_id":"space-and-being-in-contemporary-french-cinema-9781784993788","title":"Space and Being in Contemporary French Cinema","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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’. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAccessible and wide-ranging, this volume opens up new areas of critical enquiry in the expanding interdisciplinary field of space studies. It will be of immediate interest to students and researchers working not only in film studies and film philosophy, but also in French\/Francophone studies, postcolonial studies, gender and cultural studies.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eListen to James S. Williams speaking about his book http:\/\/bit.ly\/13xCGZN.  (Copy and paste the link into your browser)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e'Space and being in contemporary French cinema\u003c\/i\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003eSpace and being\u003c\/i\u003e 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....\u003ci\u003eSpace and being\u003c\/i\u003e 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.'\u003cbr\u003eMichael Gott, University of Cincinnati, Contemporary French Civilization Vol 39, No 3, 1 December 2014\u003c\/p\u003e -- .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface: Making space\u003cbr\u003e 1. Space, cinema, being\u003cbr\u003e 2. Topographies of being: space, sensation, and spectatorship in the films of Bruno Dumont\u003cbr\u003e 3. Requiem for a city: the symbolics of space in the cinema of Robert Guédiguian\u003cbr\u003e 4. Heading nowhere: framing space and social exclusion in the films of Laurent Cantet\u003cbr\u003e 5. Re-siting the Republic: Abdellatif Kechiche and the politics of reappropriation and renewal\u003cbr\u003e 6. Beyond the Other: grafting space and human relations in the trans-cinema of Claire Denis \u003cbr\u003e 7. In \u003ci\u003elieu\u003c\/i\u003e of a conclusion\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Select filmography\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Manchester University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042322809175,"sku":"9781784993788","price":18.04,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781784993788.jpg?v=1750953905","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/space-and-being-in-contemporary-french-cinema-9781784993788","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}