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Author:   Peter Sloane (Senior Lecturer and Programme Director in English, University of Buckingham, UK.)
Publisher:   Edinburgh University Press
Imprint:   Edinburgh University Press
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9781399511216

ISBN 10:   1399511211
Pages:   272
Publication Date:   31 August 2025
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Language:   English

Table of Contents

Introduction: Ambiguous Transgressions - Peter Sloane 1. L’eau Life: the Hydrous and Haptic Cinema of Claire Denis - Rowena Santos Aquino 2. Good Work or Exploitation? Beau Travail and 35 Rhums and the Fear of Individualism - Kyle Barrett 3. A Thing on a Friday Night: Objects and Desire in Vendredi Soir - Helena Gurfinkel 4. ‘A lover's hand? A breath, An abyss’: Aloneness in Claire Denis - Peter Sloane 5. Claire Denis, Corporeality and New Weird - Elif Sendur 6. The Limits of Life: experimentation, bodily consent, and bioethics in Trouble Every Day (2001), and High Life (2018) - Amy C. Chambers 7. Trans-generic Dramas of Nondisclosure: Equilibrium, the ‘General Viewer’ and the Refusal of Meaning in the Films of Claire Denis - Stuart Innes Molloy 8. Writing Female Desire: From Vendredi soir to Avec Amour et Acharnement - Kristin Hole 9. In the Cracks: Claire Denis’ Cinematic Choreographies - Danica van de Velde 10. Stars and Acting in Claire Denis’s Films since 2010 - Douglas Morrey 11. Life imitates Art: the intimacy of family in the work of Claire Denis and Yasujiro Ozu - Kate Taylor-Jones 12. ‘The Stranger and the Surprise: Hospitality, Community, and Coming to Our Senses in Vendridi soir - Jacob Hovind 13. Claire Denis’s Beaux Familles - Daniel Dufournaud

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This collection of insightful chapters develops current scholarship on Claire Denis’ work in the light of thought-provoking concepts such as ""hydropoetics"", the ""New Weird"", and ""languorous temporality"". With subtle attention to the specificities of each film, they provide a new and stimulating access to Denis’ unique oeuvre as a whole. -- Caroline Eades, University of Maryland This beautifully wide-ranging collection approaches Claire Denis’ films through an impressively diverse set of methodologies. Thinking across dimensions of ethics and otherness, the body and its environments, the familial and the worldly, ReFocus: The Films of Claire Denis opens exciting new ways to encounter this rich body of work. -- Rosalind Galt, King’s College London

This collection of insightful chapters develops current scholarship on Claire Denis' work in the light of thought-provoking concepts such as ""hydropoetics"", the ""New Weird"", and ""languorous temporality"". With subtle attention to the specificities of each film, they provide a new and stimulating access to Denis' unique oeuvre as a whole.--Caroline Eades, University of Maryland This beautifully wide-ranging collection approaches Claire Denis' films through an impressively diverse set of methodologies. Thinking across dimensions of ethics and otherness, the body and its environments, the familial and the worldly, ReFocus: The Films of Claire Denis opens exciting new ways to encounter this rich body of work.--Rosalind Galt, King's College London

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Peter Sloane is Senior Lecturer and Programme Director in English at the University of Buckingham, UK.

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