Gesture in French Post-New Wave Cinema

ISBN-13: 9781800796386 / Angielski

Hugues Azérad; Marion Schmid; François Giraud

Opis

This book examines the aesthetics of gesture in a selection of French post-New Wave films, revealing how cinema can be used to show the impact of social conditioning on the body, especially in the aftermath of May 1968. These filmmakers developed radical cinematic approaches to represent the body, attitudes and postures.

Spis treści

Contents: Everyday Gestures, Automatism and the Archive in Georges Perec and Bernard Queysanne's Un homme qui dort (The Man Who Sleeps, 1974) - Gestural Styles and Acting Styles in Chantal Akerman's Domestic Territory - Gesture, Image and Intermediality in Jean- Luc Godard's Prénom Carmen (First Name: Carmen, 1983) - The Mystery of Gesture according to Pierre Klossowski: Tableau Vivant and Film Performance in Pierre Zucca's Roberte (1979) - Gestural Lines.

O autorze

François Giraud is a Teaching Fellow in French and Francophone Studies at the University of Edinburgh, where he currently teaches documentary aesthetics, theories of intermediality as well as French language and culture. He holds a PhD from the University of Edinburgh. His most recent publications examine the intermedial and gestural aesthetics of major French filmmakers, including Jean-Luc Godard, Agnès Varda and Alain Cavalier.