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A queer auteur who plays with generic conventions, Francois 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 Francois Ozon's cinema.

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"By now a familiar fixture in contemporary French cinema, the prolific auteur Fran�ois Ozon seems to have grown in stature over the last decade. Lo�c Bourdeau has assembled an exciting and eclectic collection of original essays that combines a welcome return to the perverse queerness of the filmmaker's early work with a full examination of the later more 'mature' Ozon including a timely focus on the sexual politics of abuse. This is an impressively wide-ranging collection that will no doubt contribute to a fuller critical understanding of one of 21st century cinema's important directors.-- ""Nick Rees-Roberts, Sorbonne Nouvelle University"" 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"""

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Loic Bourdeau, Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies and BoRSF Endowed Professor in Francophone Studies at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, University of Louisiana at Lafayette.

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