Laurent Cantet / Martin O'Shaughnessy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

O'Shaughnessy, Martin (Martin P.), author.

Series:

French film directors.

French film directors

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cantet, Laurent--Criticism and interpretation.

Cantet, Laurent.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 194 pages, 6 pages of plates) : illustrations (black and white), digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2015.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Laurent Cantet is of one France's leading contemporary directors. He probes the evolution and fault-lines of contemporary society, from the home to the workplace and from the Republican school to globalised consumption more acutely than perhaps any other French film-maker. His films always put his characters on the spot, challenging their assumptions about the world they live in. However, they also demand that the spectator rethink their own position in relation to what they are seeing. This study of Cantet's work explores his unique working method and discusses his very particular way of constructing films at the uneasy interface of the individual, the group and the broader social context.

Contents:

Cover; Half-title; Series page; Title page; Copyright information; Dedication; Table of contents; List of plates; Series editors' foreword ; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 A director and his methods; Cantet's method; Cantet's fictional universe and self-effacing authorship; Socialising the family romance; The individual and the group: shame and the utopian ideal; Looks and spaces; Realism and melodrama; Conclusion; References; 2 Early applications; Tous à la manif; Jeux de plage; Les Sanguinaires; Conclusion; References; 3 The work diptych

Workplace melodrama: forcing class struggle to the surfacePersonal politics, unequal voices; The end of Fordist man; L'Emploi du temps and the new person; L'Emploi du temps and the reinvention of critique; Debt as governance; The pathologies of the new individual; Conclusion; References; 4 Going global, heading south; From novel to film; The film's opening and the tourist gaze; The individual, the group and the broader society; Race, gender, age and class: blurring the divisions; Tourism, consumption and contemporary subjectivities; Conclusion; References; 5 Between Republican walls

The film's receptionFrom novel to film: towards polyphony; The learning of inequality; The challenge of mixity; Spaces of inclusion and exclusion; Socrates, the ignorant school-teacher and the equality of voices; Conclusion; References; 6 Before and after the political; The 1950s: sidestepping the stereotype, probing the surface; The politics and practice of adaptation; Foxfire and feminism: visibility, space and masquerade; A pre- or post- political film?; Conclusion; References; Conclusion; Afterword. Returning to Cuba; Filmography; Further reading; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on May 27, 2026).

ISBN:

9781526123022

1526123029

9781781708590

1781708592

9781784992095

1784992097

OCLC:

981868480