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.
Full Product Details
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: 1.40cm
, Length: 23.40cm
Weight: 0.503kg
ISBN: 9781474479912
ISBN 10: 147447991
Pages: 232
Publication Date: 31 August 2021
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Manufactured on demand
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Reviews
"By now a familiar fixture in contemporary French cinema, the prolific auteur Fran�ois Ozon seems to have grown in stature over the last decade. Lo�c Bourdeau has assembled an exciting and eclectic collection of original essays that combines a welcome return to the perverse queerness of the filmmaker's early work with a full examination of the later more 'mature' Ozon including a timely focus on the sexual politics of abuse. This is an impressively wide-ranging collection that will no doubt contribute to a fuller critical understanding of one of 21st century cinema's important directors.-- ""Nick Rees-Roberts, Sorbonne Nouvelle 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"""
By now a familiar fixture in contemporary French cinema, the prolific auteur François Ozon seems to have grown in stature over the last decade. Loïc Bourdeau has assembled an exciting and eclectic collection of original essays that combines a welcome return to the perverse queerness of the filmmaker's early work with a full examination of the later more 'mature' Ozon including a timely focus on the sexual politics of abuse. This is an impressively wide-ranging collection that will no doubt contribute to a fuller critical understanding of one of 21st century cinema's important directors.-- ""Nick Rees-Roberts, Sorbonne Nouvelle University"" From experimentations with genre and intertextuality to new visions of queerness and relationships, ReFocus: The Films of François Ozon captures the unique spirit of one of France's most idiosyncratic directors. Loïc Bourdeau's edited volume is intellectual yet creative, cohesive yet wide-ranging, inventive yet steeped in a rich cultural tradition. Much like François Ozon's cinema itself.-- ""Gemma King, The Australian National University""
Bourdeau's edited collection of essays will serve as a valuable reference to cinephiles eager to further discover Ozon's work and its place in the larger context of French cinema. In addition, the book's focus on several issues animating contemporary French society--identity politics, education, kinship relations, and transgender rights--will satisfy the curiosity of readers intent on keeping abreast of French politics and their representation in media.--Peter Tarjanyi ""French Review"" By now a familiar fixture in contemporary French cinema, the prolific auteur François Ozon seems to have grown in stature over the last decade. Loïc Bourdeau has assembled an exciting and eclectic collection of original essays that combines a welcome return to the perverse queerness of the filmmaker's early work with a full examination of the later more 'mature' Ozon including a timely focus on the sexual politics of abuse. This is an impressively wide-ranging collection that will no doubt contribute to a fuller critical understanding of one of 21st century cinema's important directors.-- ""Nick Rees-Roberts, Sorbonne Nouvelle University"" From experimentations with genre and intertextuality to new visions of queerness and relationships, ReFocus: The Films of François Ozon captures the unique spirit of one of France's most idiosyncratic directors. Loïc Bourdeau's edited volume is intellectual yet creative, cohesive yet wide-ranging, inventive yet steeped in a rich cultural tradition. Much like François 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).
