The films of Claire Denis : intimacy on the border / edited by Marjorie Vecchio.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Vecchio, Marjorie, 1973- editor.

Wenders, Wim, writer of forward.

Series:

International library of the moving image ; 13.

International library of the moving image

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Denis, Claire, 1946---Criticism and interpretation.

Denis, Claire.

Denis, Claire, 1946-.

Motion picture producers and directors--France.

Motion picture producers and directors.

Postcolonialism--Africa.

Postcolonialism.

Criticism and interpretation.

Africa.

France.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xxiii, 237 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Distribution:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan.

Place of Publication:

London : I.B. Tauris, 2014.

Summary:

"The films of Claire Denis, one of the most challenging and respected of contemporary filmmakers, probe the psyche of global citizenship, tracing the borderlines of family, desire, nationality and power. With subtlety, depth and at times minimalism and abstraction, her films - including "Chocolat", "Beau travail" and "White Material" - explore connections between national experience and individual circumstance, visualizing the complications of such dualities. Following a Foreword by Wim Wenders, with whom Denis worked prior to making her own movies, international contributors explore the themes she addresses in her films, such as kinship and landscape, Neo-Colonialism and New French Extremity. Original interviews with an editor, actor and two composers most familiar with the working style of Denis, and with Denis herself, also reveal fresh facets of this intrepid filmmaker."--From publisher's website, http://www.ibtauris.com

Contents:

Part I Interviews. 'To let the image sing' : conversations with Dickson Hinchcliffe and Stuart Staples / Martine Beugnet

Interview with Nelly Quettier / Kirsten Johnson

Interview with Alex Descas / Jean-Luc Nancy

Part II Relations. La famille Denis / Catherine Wheatley

Reinventing community, or non-relational relations in Claire Denis's I can't sleep / San Ishii-Gonzalez

Beyond the Other : grafting relations in the films of Claire Denis / James S. Williams

Part III Global citizenship. Beyond Post-colonialism? from Chocolat to White material / Cornelia Ruhe

Trouble every day : the Neo-colonialists bite back / Florence Martin

Foreignness and employment : a study of the role of work in the films of Claire Denis / Rafael Ruiz Pleguezuelos

The intruder according to Claire Denis / Jean-Luc Nancy

Part IV Within film. Delivering : Claire Denis's opening sequences / Noëlle Rouxel-Cubberly

Rhythms of relationality : Denis and dance / Laura McMahon

That interrupting feeling : interstitial disjunctions in Claire Denis's L'intrus / Firoza Elavia

Points of flight, lines of fracture : Claire Denis's uncanny landscape / Henrik Gustafsson

Arthouse/grindhouse : Claire Denis and the 'New French Extremity' / Adam Nayman and Andrew Tracy.

Notes:

Bibliography: pages 227-232.

ISBN:

9781848859531

1848859538

9781848859548

1848859546

OCLC:

893450406

Access Restriction:

Pacific Film Archive collection; non-circulating.