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Claude Chabrol's Aesthetics of Opacity / Catherine Dousteyssier-Khoze.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2017Description: 1 online resource (200 p.) : 10 B/W illustrationsContent type:
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  • 9780748692606
  • 9780748692613
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 Contexts and Influences -- 2 Chabrol and Genres -- 3 The Human Beast -- 4 Family Secrets -- 5 Chabrolean Spaces as Heterotopias of Crisis -- 6 Through the Looking Glass: Chabrol’s Mirrors and the ‘Crystal-image’ -- Conclusion: Towards an Aesthetics of Visual Opacity -- Filmography -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: The first critical appraisal of Chabrol's œuvre as a whole (from 1958 to 2009)Claude Chabrol's cinema is generally associated with a specific type of psychological thriller, one set in the French provinces and fascinated with murder, incest, fragmented families, unstable spaces and inscrutable female characters. But Chabrol's films are both deceptively accessible and deeply reflexive, and in this innovative reappraisal of his filmography Catherine Dousteyssier-Khoze explores the Chabrol who was influenced by Balzac, Magritte and Stanley Kubrick. Bringing to the fore Chabrol’s ‘aesthetic of opacity’, the book deconstructs the apparent clarity and comfort of his chosen genre, encouraging the viewer to reflect on the relationship between illusion and reality, and the status of the film image itself.Key featuresUncovers new influences on Chabrol, including Balzac, Magritte and KubrickOffers original insights into Chabrol’s most famous film, Le BoucherAnalyses some of Chabrol’s latest, little studied films (La Fleur du mal, La Demoiselle d’honneur, La Fille coupée en deux and Bellamy)Engages with Foucault’s concept of heterotopia and Deleuze's ‘crystal-image’Surveys Chabrol’s influence and legacy on the contemporary French thriller
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 Contexts and Influences -- 2 Chabrol and Genres -- 3 The Human Beast -- 4 Family Secrets -- 5 Chabrolean Spaces as Heterotopias of Crisis -- 6 Through the Looking Glass: Chabrol’s Mirrors and the ‘Crystal-image’ -- Conclusion: Towards an Aesthetics of Visual Opacity -- Filmography -- Bibliography -- Index

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The first critical appraisal of Chabrol's œuvre as a whole (from 1958 to 2009)Claude Chabrol's cinema is generally associated with a specific type of psychological thriller, one set in the French provinces and fascinated with murder, incest, fragmented families, unstable spaces and inscrutable female characters. But Chabrol's films are both deceptively accessible and deeply reflexive, and in this innovative reappraisal of his filmography Catherine Dousteyssier-Khoze explores the Chabrol who was influenced by Balzac, Magritte and Stanley Kubrick. Bringing to the fore Chabrol’s ‘aesthetic of opacity’, the book deconstructs the apparent clarity and comfort of his chosen genre, encouraging the viewer to reflect on the relationship between illusion and reality, and the status of the film image itself.Key featuresUncovers new influences on Chabrol, including Balzac, Magritte and KubrickOffers original insights into Chabrol’s most famous film, Le BoucherAnalyses some of Chabrol’s latest, little studied films (La Fleur du mal, La Demoiselle d’honneur, La Fille coupée en deux and Bellamy)Engages with Foucault’s concept of heterotopia and Deleuze's ‘crystal-image’Surveys Chabrol’s influence and legacy on the contemporary French thriller

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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