La reine Margot (Patrice Chéreau, 1994) /

La reine Margot (Patrice Chéreau, 1994) /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Pidduck, Julianne.
Imprint:	Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2005.
Description:	xii, 112 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	The French film guides series French film guides series.
Subject:	Reine Margot (Motion picture) Reine Margot (Motion picture)
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5818888

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ISBN:	9780252030901 (alk. paper) 0252030907 (alk. paper) 9780252073311 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0252073312 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Notes:	"This edition produced by joint arrangement of I.B. Tauris & Co. and the University of Illinois Press"-T.p. verso. Includes filmography (p. [109]-[110]), bibliographical references (p. [111]-112) and index.

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments
Synopsis
Introduction
1. Production contexts
Historical contexts: Renaissance France and contemporary France
Representing the past: Romanticism and other references
Mythologies: Catherine de Medicis and Marguerite de Valois
Adjani's 'Margot': the elusive superstar
Genre and industrial cycles: French costume film
Notes
2. The film
The structure of the narrative
Strange bedfellows: La Mole and Coconnas/Margot's wedding
Wedding festivities and a 'strange' wedding night
The spectacle of history: the massacre of Saint-Barthelemy
The international scene: exile and difference
Clandestine romance: La Mole and Margot
The monstrous family
The suffering male body: La Mole and Charles IX
Notes
3. Reception
Pre-release publicity
French reception
International reception
Notes
Conclusion
Notes
Appendix 1. Credits
Appendix 2. Historical timeline
Appendix 3. Adjani filmography
Appendix 4. Chereau filmography
Appendix 5. Selected bibliography