Jacques Demy / Darren Waldron.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Waldron, Darren, author.

Series:

French film directors.

French film directors

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Demy, Jacques.

Motion picture producers and directors--France.

Motion picture producers and directors.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 196 pages, 8 numbered pages of plates) : illustrations (black and white), digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Saccharine for some, poignant for others, Jacques Demy's 'enchanted' world is familiar to generations of French audiences accustomed to watching Christmas repeats of his fairytale 'Peau d'ane', or seeing Catherine Deneuve and Francoise Dorleac prance and pirouette in 'Les Demoiselles de Rochefort.' This wide-ranging book addresses many of the key aspects of Demy's cinema, including his associations with the New Wave, his unique approach to musicals, his adaptations of fairytales, his representations of gender and sexuality and his legacy as an iconic director for generations of audiences and filmmakers.

Contents:

Introduction: ‘Un demi, Jacques, bien frais, avec de la mousse’: background and early filmmaking

1. Jacques Demy, the Nouvelle Vague and beyond

2. Melodic reconfigurations: Demy’s musicals

3. Fantasy and its disenchantments: fairytale, fable and myth in the Demy-monde

4. Gender and sexuality in the Demy-monde

5. Mythologising Demy

Concluding remarks

Filmography

Select bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on May 5, 2026).

ISBN:

9781526111340

1526111349

9781526111357

1526111357

OCLC:

980828601