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OverviewExamines Fran ois Ozon, one of France's most prolific and best known international (queer) directors Analyses films including Potiche, Frantz and By the Grace of God, and shows how Ozon's work is deeply influenced by literature, cinema and music Draws on recent theoretical developments in gender, queer and film studies Each chapter offers a case study of one film while grounding its arguments within Ozon's larger oeuvre, as well as the social, historical and political context A queer auteur who plays with generic conventions, Fran ois Ozon is one of France's most prolific and best known international directors, who has built a filmography that not only engages in the representation of non-normative sexualities, kinship and violence, but also makes room for social outcasts and marginalised communities. This edited collection brings together renowned and emergent scholars to investigate further questions of minority, queerness, (queer) intertextuality and gender representations, as well as secrecy, transgression and intimacy in his films, offering the most up-to-date study of Fran ois Ozon's cinema. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Lo c BourdeauPublisher: Edinburgh University Press Imprint: Edinburgh University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.20cm , Length: 23.40cm Weight: 0.331kg ISBN: 9781474479929ISBN 10: 1474479928 Pages: 232 Publication Date: 31 May 2023 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviews"""From experimentations with genre and intertextuality to new visions of queerness and relationships, ReFocus: The Films of Fran ois Ozon captures the unique spirit of one of France's most idiosyncratic directors. Lo c Bourdeau's edited volume is intellectual yet creative, cohesive yet wide-ranging, inventive yet steeped in a rich cultural tradition. Much like Fran ois Ozon's cinema itself."" -Gemma King, The Australian National University" Author InformationLo c Bourdeau is an Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. He has edited Horrible Mothers. Representation across Francophone North America (UNP, 2019) and ReFocus: The Films of Fran ois Ozon (EUP, 2021). He recently completed Revisiting HIV/AIDS in French Culture: Raw Matters (Lexington Books, 2022), co-edited with V. Hunter Capps. He launched and serves as series editor of New Directions in Francophone Studies: Diversity, Decolonization, Queerness (EUP). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |