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Informationen zum Autor James S. Williams is Professor of Modern French Literature and Film at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK. Klappentext This book brings together five French directors who have established themselves as among the most exciting working today: Bruno Dumont, Robert Guédiguian, Laurent Cantet, Abdellatif Kechiche, and Claire Denis. It explores their unique strategies of representation and framing that reflect a profound investment in the geophysical world. Zusammenfassung This book brings together five French directors who have established themselves as among the most exciting working today: Bruno Dumont, Robert Guédiguian, Laurent Cantet, Abdellatif Kechiche, and Claire Denis. It explores their unique strategies of representation and framing that reflect a profound investment in the geophysical world. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface: Making space 1. Space, cinema, being 2. Topographies of being: space, sensation, and spectatorship in the films of Bruno Dumont 3. Requiem for a city: the symbolics of space in the cinema of Robert Guédiguian 4. Heading nowhere: framing space and social exclusion in the films of Laurent Cantet 5. Re-siting the Republic: Abdellatif Kechiche and the politics of reappropriation and renewal 6. Beyond the Other: grafting space and human relations in the trans-cinema of Claire Denis 7. In lieu of a conclusion Bibliography Select filmography Index
