| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 228 pages) : illustrations |
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ReFocus. The international directors series |
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ReFocus: the international directors series
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| Contents |
Introduction / Jeri English and Marie Pascal -- 1. Denis Villeneuve, Québécois and citizen of the world / Amy J. Ransom -- 2. Science fiction, national rebirth, and messianism in Un 32 août sur terre / Kester Dyer -- 3. Close-ups and Gros Plans : Denis Villeneuve the macrophage / Marie Pascal -- 4. Reproductive futurism and the woman problem in the films of Denis Villeneuve / Brenda Longfellow -- 5. Filming missing bodies : 'Bodiless-character films' and the presence of absence in Denis Villeneuve's cinema / Emily Sanders -- 6. Life, risk, and the structuring force of exposure in Maelström / Terrance H. McDonald -- 7. The self as other and the other as self : Identity, doubling and misrecognition in Incendies, Enemy and Blade Runner 2049 / Jeri English -- 8. Villeneuve's hidden monsters : Representations of evil in Prisoners and Sicario / Alex Frohlick -- 9. Beyond complexity : Narrative experimentation and genre development in Enemy / Melanie Kreitler -- 10. Subjectivity and cinematic space in Blade Runner 2049 / Christophe Gelly, David Roche -- 11. Mere data makes a man : Artificial intelligences in Blade Runner 2049 / Kingsley Marshall -- 12. Shortening the way : Villeneuve's Dune as film and as project / Trip McCrossin |
| Summary |
"This edited collection brings together original works of scholarship on all of Villeneuve's feature films from different theoretical approaches, in order to deepen our understanding of this important and yet relatively understudied director; read individually or as a collective whole, these studies reveal important elements of Villeneuve's filmic practice, as well as the evolutions of his oeuvre."-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index |
| Notes |
Jeri English is an Associate Professor of French and Women's & Gender Studies at the University of Toronto Scarborough (Canada). Marie Pascal is an Assistant Professor of French and Québec literature and film at King's University College at Western University (Canada) |
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In English |
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Print version record |
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Villeneuve, Denis, 1967- -- Criticism and interpretation
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Motion picture producers and directors -- Canada -- Criticism and interpretation
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Film theory & criticism.
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Individual film directors, film-makers.
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Film: styles & genres.
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Films, cinema.
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Film, TV & radio.
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The arts.
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PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / Direction & Production
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Motion picture producers and directors
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Films, cinema.
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Individual film directors, film-makers.
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Film: styles & genres.
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Performing Arts.
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Canada
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
English, Jeri, editor
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Pascal, Marie, editor
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| ISBN |
9781474497404 |
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1474497403 |
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9781474497411 |
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1474497411 |
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