Jacques Demy

Informationen zum Autor Darren Waldron is Senior Lecturer in French Screen Studies at the University of Manchester Klappentext The first full-length book devoted to Jacques Demy in the English language. Zusammenfassung The first full-length book devoted to Jacques Demy in the English language. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: 'Un demi, Jacques, bien frais, avec de la mousse': background and early filmmaking1. Jacques Demy, the Nouvelle Vague and beyond 2. Melodic reconfigurations: Demy's musicals 3. Fantasy and its disenchantments: fairytale, fable and myth in the Demy-monde4. Gender and sexuality in the Demy-monde 5. Mythologising Demy Concluding remarks FilmographySelect bibliographyIndex

Product details

• Authors: Waldron Darren, Darren Waldron
• Assisted by: Diana Holmes (Editor), Robert Ingram (Editor)
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2014
• EAN: 9780719087394
• ISBN: 978-0-7190-8739-4
• No. of pages: 208
• Series: French Film Directors; French Film Directors Series; French Film Directors (Hardcov; French Film Directors Series; French Film Directors (Hardcov; French Film Directors
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; Fernsehen, TV