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Beau travail / Corinn Columpar.
Van Pelt Library PN1997.B43 C65 2026
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Columpar, Corinn, 1970- author.
- Series:
- BFI film classics
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Beau travail (Motion picture).
- Denis, Claire, 1946---Criticism and interpretation.
- Denis, Claire.
- Postcolonialism in motion pictures.
- Djibouti--In motion pictures.
- Djibouti.
- Genre:
- Film criticism.
- Physical Description:
- 96 pages : illustrations (color) ; 19 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London : British Film Institute / Bloomsbury Publishing, 2026.
- Summary:
- "Beau Travail (1998) is Claire Denis' bold, sensuous masterpiece. Loosely based on Herman Melville's Billy Budd, Sailor (1924), the film explores the complexities of desire, identity, and power within an all-male group of French Foreign Legionnaires stationed at a coastal outpost in the former colony of Djibouti, in East Africa. The film cemented Denis' position as a leading auteur and visual poet. In this book, Corinn Columpar positions the film as a cinematic bid for freedom. She examines its formal innovations - particularly the use of the gaze, voice, and movement - to explain how Denis produces exhilarating possibilities narratively, affectively, and ideologically, while also situating the film within the histories of art cinema and postcolonial filmmaking."--Publisher description.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Other Format:
- ebook version :
- ISBN:
- 9781839027130
- 1839027134
- OCLC:
- 1544925410
- Publisher Number:
- CIPO000383410
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