ReFocus : The Films of Denis Villeneuve / edited by Jeri English and Marie Pascal.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pascal, Marie, editor.

English, Jeri, editor.

Series:

ReFocus: the international directors series.

ReFocus

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Villeneuve, Denis, 1967-.

Villeneuve, Denis.

Motion picture producers and directors.

Motion picture producers and directors--Canada.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 228 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press Ltd, [2023]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

The nimble, creative spirit of Québécois screenwriter and filmmaker, Denis Villeneuve, is reflected in his varied body of work. Villeneuve explores questions of alterity and interculturality, of language and identity, of memory and forgetting, of violence and retribution, throughout his filmography: 'Un 32 août sur terre' (1998), 'Maelström' (2000), 'Polytechnique' (2009), 'Incendies' (2010), 'Enemy' (2013), 'Prisoners' (2013), 'Sicario' (2015), 'Arrival' (2016), 'Blade Runner 2049' (2017) and 'Dune: Part 1' (2021).This edited collection brings together original works of scholarship on all of Villeneuve's feature films from different theoretical approaches, in order to deepen our understanding of this important and yet relatively understudied director; read individually or as a collective whole, these studies reveal important elements of Villeneuve's filmic practice, as well as the evolutions of his oeuvre.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Figures

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

Chapter 1 Denis Villeneuve, Québécois and Citizen of the World

Chapter 2 Science Fiction, National Rebirth and Messianism in Un 32 août sur terre

Chapter 3 Close-ups and Gros Plans: Denis Villeneuve the Macrophage

Chapter 4 Reproductive Futurism and the Woman Problem in the Films of Denis Villeneuve

Chapter 5 Filming Missing Bodies: 'Bodiless-Character Films' and the Presence of Absence in Denis Villeneuve's Cinema

Chapter 6 Life, Risk and the Structuring Force of Exposure in Maelström

Chapter 7 The Self as Other and the Other as Self: Identity, Doubling and Misrecognition in Incendies, Enemy and Blade Runner 2049

Chapter 8 Villeneuve's Hidden Monsters: Representations of Evil in Prisoners and Sicario

Chapter 9 Beyond Complexity: Narrative Experimentation and Genre Development in Enemy

Chapter 10 Subjectivity and Cinematic Space in Blade Runner 2049

Chapter 11 Mere Data Makes a Man: Artificial Intelligences in Blade Runner 2049

Chapter 12 Shortening the Way: Villeneuve's Dune as Film and as Project

Filmography

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 20 Oct 2023).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4744-9741-1

1-4744-9740-3

OCLC:

1371574680