This volume contains profile-style essays on five of the most popular or controversial directors - Olivier Assayas, Jacques Audiard, the Dardenne brothers, Michael Haneke and François Ozon.
This volume contains profile-style essays on five of the most popular or controversial directors - Olivier Assayas, Jacques Audiard, the Dardenne brothers, Michael Haneke and François Ozon.
This book draws on feminist philosophers and theorists from Simone de Beauvoir on to offer readings of a range of the most important and memorable of these films from the 1990s and 2000s, focusing as it does so on how the films convey women's lives and identities. Mainstream ent…
Examination of how the exploration of female subjectivity by selected French and British women film-makers has expanded and reinvigorated the "language" of contemporary cinema.
"Since the 1980s the number of women regularly directing films has increased significantly in most Western countries; in France, Claire Denis and Catherine Breillat have joined Agnès Varda in gaining international renown, while British directors Lynne Ramsay and Andrea Arnold ha…
Female subjectivity in philosophy and theory -- Feminist film studies and women's cinema after psychoanalysis -- Body -- Look -- Speech -- Performance -- Desire -- Freedom -- Conclusion
La 4e de couv. porte : "Since the 1980s the number of women regularly directing films has increased significantly in most Western countries: in France, Claire Denis and Catherine Breillat have joined Agnes Varda in gaining international renown, while British directors Lynne Rams…