Negotiating the auteur : Dominique Cabrera, Noémie Lvovsky, Laetitia Masson and Marion Vernoux /
Dobson, Julia.
Manchester : Manchester University Press
2012.
This book provides the first detailed analysis of the work of four important contemporary directors whose work falls between the reductive labels of 'auteur cinema' and 'popular cinema'. Their work is contextualised within this timely investigation into the shifting relationship between the privileged status of the auteur and questions of genre, gender and cinematic production in France today. This important contribution to understanding the shifting landscapes of contemporary French film identifies an essential intermediacy in the films of these directors, which works to undo a series of dominant oppositions, generic template and contestation, public collectivity and personal intimacy, to offer a new perspective on the location of the political in contemporary French cinema.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Includes filmographies: p. [194]-207.
This book provides the first detailed analysis of the work of four important contemporary directors whose work falls between the reductive labels of 'auteur cinema' and 'popular cinema'. Their work is contextualised within this timely investigation into the shifting relationship between the privileged status of the auteur and questions of genre, gender and cinematic production in France today. This important contribution to understanding the shifting landscapes of contemporary French film identifies an essential intermediacy in the films of these directors, which works to undo a series of dominant oppositions, generic template and contestation, public collectivity and personal intimacy, to offer a new perspective on the location of the political in contemporary French cinema.
Introduction : continuing negotiations -- Dominique Cabrera : intimate constructions of a 'bonheur collectif' -- Noémie Lvovsky : rupture and transmission -- Laetitia Masson : suspect identities -- Marion Vernoux : encountering difference.
Motion picture producers and directors
Motion pictures
Auteur theory (Motion pictures)