Performative opacity in the work of Isabelle Huppert / edited by Iggy Cortez and Ian Fleishman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cortez, Iggy, editor.

Fleishman, Ian Thomas, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Huppert, Isabelle--Criticism and interpretation.

Huppert, Isabelle.

Actors--France.

Actors.

Feminism and motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 154 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh Univeristy Press, 2023.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

<i>Performative Opacity in the Work of Isabelle Huppert</i> argues that the career of this singular French actor - constituting a corpus of well over a hundred films - offers a unique testing ground for current approaches in film studies and affect studies.<br><br>Attention to Huppert's performances can reframe recent discussions on the social and cultural dimensions of emotion and normativity through a compelling paradox: her roles tend to express grandiose and overwhelming conditions central to debates in the humanities - negativity, dispossession, trauma - but through elusive and at times resistant or diminutive forms of expression: what J. Hoberman once called her 'genius to distinguish 47 varieties of blankness'. Including diverse contributions from an international line-up of established scholars, this volume examines Huppert's flat affect and other registers with an eye to their significance for cinema and media studies, queer and gender studies, star studies and world cinema.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Figures

Acknowledgements

Notes on Contributors

Introduction: Performing the Inassimilable

1. The Unknown Huppert

2. Huppert in the Ozon-Machine: Melodrama and Meta-Acting in 8 Femmes

3. Alter/Ego: Isabelle Huppert as Werner Schroeter's Double

4. Laughing in the Face of Death: The Comedic Force of Isabelle Huppert in La Cérémonie

5. White Mothers on Colonised Land, or What Isabelle Huppert Makes Visible?

6. Isabelle Huppert's Caring, Carefree, Careless Abortionist in Claude Chabrol's Une affaire de femmes

7. Horn/Huppert/Horn

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 07 Mar 2025).

ISBN:

1-4744-7985-5