Luc Besson

Widely taught on Film Studies courses and in French Cultural Studies programmesLuc Besson is a popular and respected filmmaker who has achieved international fameA welcome addition to the French Film Directors series.

List of contents

1. Luc Besson the emerging filmmaker
2. Besson in context
3. Violence as performance
4. Constructing subjectivity in the absence of the father and the mother
Afterword

About the author

Susan Hayward is Professor of French at the University of Exeter

Summary

Luc Besson is considered one of the hottest international properties to emerge from the new wave of French film directors in the 1980s. This is a study of Besson's film-making career to date, placing the films within their socio-historical and political context.

Product details

• Authors: Susan Hayward
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.03.1998
• EAN: 9780719050763
• ISBN: 978-0-7190-5076-3
• No. of pages: 216
• Dimensions: 127 mm x 203 mm x 13 mm
• Weight: 265 g
• Series: French Film Directors (Paperba; French Film Directors (Paperba
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet