Negotiating the auteur : Dominique Cabrera, Noémie Lvovsky, Laetitia Masson and Marion Vernoux / Julia Dobson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dobson, Julia, 1965- author.

Series:

French film directors.

French film directors

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion picture producers and directors--France.

Motion picture producers and directors.

Motion pictures--France--History.

Motion pictures.

Auteur theory (Motion pictures).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 210 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2012.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This book aims to provoke increased interest in the work of the four directors: Dominique Cabrera, Noémie Lvovsky, Laetitia Masson and Marion Vernoux, although some of their early works have become more difficult to access, most of their films remain commercially available through French distributors. The four directors are not new arrivals and began making films in the early 1990s, yet they have received scant critical attention in both popular and academic film criticism. They share similar profiles in terms of box office success, number of films made and generational affinities and, shorts and feature films in France. They make films that straddle boundaries of categorisation and therefore escape the quickly established and self-perpetuating groupings that serve as powerful frameworks for popular access via DVD distribution, critical canonisation and academic curricula. Whilst Cabrera attests her sanguine awareness of the discriminatory treatment of women in all areas of the film industry she rejects the suggestion that the process of her filmmaking is determined by sexual difference or a gendered creative identity, asserting provocatively. The book discusses Masson's use of romance and detective narratives to debunk the former and subvert the later. The career path of Lvovsky remains distinctive from that of other directors. Vernoux's oeuvre maintains a coherent focus on the modes of transgression present within the generic conventions of comedy and romance in films which exploit the common narrative device of the encounter to propel narratives and characters across social boundaries within a dominant generic focus on romantic comedy.

Contents:

List of illustrations

Series editors’ Foreword

Acknowledgements

Introduction: continuing negotiations

1. Dominique Cabrera: intimate constructions of a ‘bonheur collectif’

2. Noémie Lvovsky: rupture and transmission

3. Laetitia Masson: suspect identities

4. Marion Vernoux: encountering difference

Index.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 16 Mar 2026).

Includes bibliographical references, filmographies and index.

ISBN:

9781526141705

1526141701

OCLC:

1524240354