Claire Denis /

Claire Denis /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Mayne, Judith, author.
Imprint:	Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2005]
Description:	1 online resource.
Language:	English
Series:	Contemporary film directors Contemporary film directors.
Subject:	Denis, Claire -- Criticism and interpretation. Denis, Claire, -- 1948- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11223420

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ISBN:	0252029917 0252072383 9780252096396 0252096398 9781461958406 1461958407 9780252029912 9780252072383
Notes:	Filmography: pages [149]-153. Includes bibliographical references (pages [155]-162) and index. English. Description based on print version record.
Summary:	Widely regarded as one of the most innovative and passionate filmmakers working in France today, Claire Denis has continued to make beautiful and challenging films since the 1988 release of her first feature, Chocolat. Judith Mayne's comprehensive study of these films traces Denis's career and discusses her major feature films in rich detail. Born in Paris but having grown up in Africa, Denis explores in her films the legacies of French colonialism and the complex relationships between sexuality, gender, and race. From the adult woman who observes her past as a child in Cameroon to the Lithuanian immigrant who arrives in Paris and watches a serial killer to the disgraced French Foreign Legionnaire attempting to make sense of his past, the subjects of Denis's films continually revisit themes of watching, bearing witness, and making contact, as well as displacement, masculinity, and the migratory subject.
Other form:	Print version: Mayne, Judith. Claire Denis Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2005] 0252029917 (alk. paper)

Table of Contents:

Border patrols : chocolat and no fear, no die
Strange alchemies : U.S. go
Home and Nénette and Boni
Rhythms of the night : I can't sleep and Beau Travail
Troubles in paradise : trouble every day and Friday night.