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OverviewIn just over a decade, François Ozon has earned an international reputation as a successful and provocative filmmaker. A student of Eric Rohmer and Jean Douchet at the prestigious Fémis, Ozon made a number of critically acclaimed shorts in the 1990s and released his first feature film Sitcom in 1998. Two additional shorts and eleven feature films have followed, including international successes 8 femmes and Swimming Pool and more recent releases such as Angel, Ricky, and Le refuge. Ozon's originality lies in his filmmaking style, which draws on familiar cinematic traditions (the crime thriller, the musical, the psychological drama, the comedy, the period piece) but simultaneously mixes these recognizable genres and renders them unfamiliar. Despite tremendous diversity in cinematic choices, Ozon's oeuvre is surprisingly consistent in its desire to blur the traditional frontiers between the masculine and the feminine, gay and straight, reality and fantasy, auteur and commercial cinema. Thibaut Schilt provides an overview of François Ozon's career to date, highlighting the director's unrestrained, voracious cinephilia, his recurrent collaborations with women screenwriters and actresses, and the trademarks of his cinema including music, dance, and the clothes that accompany these now typically Ozonian episodes. Schilt contextualizes Ozon's filmmaking within the larger fields of French filmmaking and international queer cinema, and he discusses several major themes running through Ozon's work, including obsessions with inadequate fathers, various types of mourning, and a recurring taste for ""the foreign."" The volume also includes an insightful interview with the director. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Thibaut SchiltPublisher: University of Illinois Press Imprint: University of Illinois Press Dimensions: Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 21.00cm Weight: 0.286kg ISBN: 9780252077944ISBN 10: 0252077946 Pages: 208 Publication Date: 13 January 2011 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments ix the fabric of desire 1 Paternal Monsters: Sitcom, Les amants criminels, and 8 femmes 38 Mourning Sickness: Sous le sable, Swimming Pool, and Le temps qui reste 78 Foreign Affairs: Gouttes d'eau sur pierres brulantes, 5 x 2, and Ricky 115 an interview with francois ozon 155 Filmography 169 Bibliography 181 Index 191Reviews"""An elegant, highly readable, and refreshing discussion of Francois Ozon's career to date. Schilt combines incisive readings of visual and narrative detail with vivid enthusiasm for Ozon's films."" Emma Wilson, author of Atom Egoyan" An elegant, highly readable, and refreshing discussion of Francois Ozon's career to date. Schilt combines incisive readings of visual and narrative detail with vivid enthusiasm for Ozon's films. Emma Wilson, author of Atom Egoyan Author InformationThibaut Schilt is an assistant professor of French in the department of modern languages and literatures at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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