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ReFocus : The Films of François Ozon / Loïc Bourdeau.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: ReFocus: The International Directors Series : RFIDSPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2021Description: 1 online resource (232 p.) : 32 B/W illustrationsContent type:
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  • 9781474479912
  • 9781474479936
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 791.430233092
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: In the Beginning Was the Word -- Part I. The Politics of Form -- 1. Queer Tyranny and Intertextuality in Gouttes d’eau sur pierres brûlantes: François Ozon Pays Homage to Master Fassbinder -- 2. François Ozon’s Sitcom and Politics of Form -- 3. Queering the Trenches: Homoerotic Overtones in Frantz -- 4. The Crystal-image and Queer Ambiguity in Sous le sable -- 5. French Ozon/Global Ozon: French Specificity and Globalisation in Jeune & jolie -- Part II. (In)Formal Politics -- 6. ‘The Scent of a Middle-class Woman’: Desire, Family and the Adolescent Imagination in François Ozon’s Dans la maison -- 7. Bringing Up Baby in the Twenty-first Century: Le Refuge and the Ozonian Family -- 8. Transing Dynamics: Ozon’s Une Nouvelle amie -- 9. Sex Wars in Potiche: Womanhood Then and Now -- 10. Female Creativity, Selfishness and Monstrosity in François Ozon’s Angel -- 11. From Faits Divers to Grandes Affaires: Giving Voice to Sexual Abuse Survivors in Grâce à Dieu -- Filmography -- Index
Summary: Examines François Ozon, one of France’s most prolific and best known international (queer) directorsAnalyses films including Potiche, Frantz and By the Grace of God, and shows how Ozon’s work is deeply influenced by literature, cinema and musicDraws on recent theoretical developments in gender, queer and film studiesEach chapter offers a case study of one film while grounding its arguments within Ozon’s larger oeuvre, as well as the social, historical and political contextA queer auteur who plays with generic conventions, François 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 François Ozon’s cinema.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: In the Beginning Was the Word -- Part I. The Politics of Form -- 1. Queer Tyranny and Intertextuality in Gouttes d’eau sur pierres brûlantes: François Ozon Pays Homage to Master Fassbinder -- 2. François Ozon’s Sitcom and Politics of Form -- 3. Queering the Trenches: Homoerotic Overtones in Frantz -- 4. The Crystal-image and Queer Ambiguity in Sous le sable -- 5. French Ozon/Global Ozon: French Specificity and Globalisation in Jeune & jolie -- Part II. (In)Formal Politics -- 6. ‘The Scent of a Middle-class Woman’: Desire, Family and the Adolescent Imagination in François Ozon’s Dans la maison -- 7. Bringing Up Baby in the Twenty-first Century: Le Refuge and the Ozonian Family -- 8. Transing Dynamics: Ozon’s Une Nouvelle amie -- 9. Sex Wars in Potiche: Womanhood Then and Now -- 10. Female Creativity, Selfishness and Monstrosity in François Ozon’s Angel -- 11. From Faits Divers to Grandes Affaires: Giving Voice to Sexual Abuse Survivors in Grâce à Dieu -- Filmography -- Index

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Examines François Ozon, one of France’s most prolific and best known international (queer) directorsAnalyses films including Potiche, Frantz and By the Grace of God, and shows how Ozon’s work is deeply influenced by literature, cinema and musicDraws on recent theoretical developments in gender, queer and film studiesEach chapter offers a case study of one film while grounding its arguments within Ozon’s larger oeuvre, as well as the social, historical and political contextA queer auteur who plays with generic conventions, François 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 François Ozon’s cinema.

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