Overview

A queer auteur who plays with generic conventions, Francois Ozon is one of France's most prolific and best known international directors, who has built a filmography that not only engages in the representation of non-normative sexualities, kinship and violence, but also makes room for social outcasts and marginalised communities. This edited collection brings together renowned and emergent scholars to investigate further questions of minority, queerness, (queer) intertextuality and gender representations, as well as secrecy, transgression and intimacy in his films, offering the most up-to-date study of Francois Ozon's cinema.

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Author:   Loïc Bourdeau (scholar of French Studies and the Medical Humanities in the School of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures, Maynooth University)
Publisher:   Edinburgh University Press
Imprint:   Edinburgh University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.20cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.331kg
ISBN:  

9781474479929

ISBN 10:   1474479928
Pages:   232
Publication Date:   22 May 2023
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction: In the beginning was the word - Loïc Bourdeau Part One: The Politics of Form 1. Queer Tyranny and Intertextuality in Gouttes d’eau sur pierres brûlantes: François Ozon Pays Homage to Master Fassbinder - Amy Bertram 2. François Ozon’s Sitcom and Politics of Form - Tamara Tasevska 3. Queering the Trenches: Homoerotic Overtones in Frantz - Helena Duffy 4. The Crystal-Image and Queer Ambiguity in Sous le sable - Peadar Kearney 5. French Ozon/Global Ozon: French Specificity and Globalisation in Jeune & jolie - Felicity Chaplin Part Two: (In)Formal Politics 6. ‘The Scent of a Middle-class Woman’: Desire, family and the adolescent imagination in François Ozon’s Dans la maison - Jamie Steele 7. Bringing Up Baby in the Twenty-First Century: Le Refuge and the Ozonian Family - Thibaut Schilt 8. Transing Dynamics: Ozon’s Une nouvelle amie - Todd W. Reeser 9. Sex Wars in Potiche: Womanhood Then and Now - Loïc Bourdeau 10. Female Creativity, Selfishness and Monstrosity in François Ozon’s Angel - Fiona Handyside 11. From Faits Divers to Grandes Affaires: Giving Voice to Sexual-Abuse Survivors in Grâce à Dieu - Levilson C. Reis

Reviews

"""From experimentations with genre and intertextuality to new visions of queerness and relationships, ReFocus: The Films of Fran ois Ozon captures the unique spirit of one of France's most idiosyncratic directors. Lo c Bourdeau's edited volume is intellectual yet creative, cohesive yet wide-ranging, inventive yet steeped in a rich cultural tradition. Much like Fran ois Ozon's cinema itself."" -Gemma King, The Australian National University"

""From experimentations with genre and intertextuality to new visions of queerness and relationships, ReFocus: The Films of Fran ois Ozon captures the unique spirit of one of France's most idiosyncratic directors. Lo c Bourdeau's edited volume is intellectual yet creative, cohesive yet wide-ranging, inventive yet steeped in a rich cultural tradition. Much like Fran ois Ozon's cinema itself."" -Gemma King, The Australian National University

Author Information

Loïc Bourdeau is a scholar of French Studies and the Medical Humanities in the School of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures at Maynooth University, formerly Louisiana Board of Regents Associate Professor of Francophone Studies at UL Lafayette. He has published extensively on contemporary cultural productions by marginalised voices in France and Québec. In addition to several chapters and articles, he has edited or co-edited four volumes, including Horrible Mothers. Representations across Francophone North America (2019), ReFocus: The Films of François Ozon (2021), and Revisiting HIV/AIDS in French Culture: Raw Matters (2022). He has edited special issues of the Australian Journal of French Studies (2020), Nouvelles Études Francophones (2022), and a special issue of Nottingham French Studies on ‘The Twenty-first Century Social Novel in French’ (2024).

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