ReFocus: The Films of François Ozon

Loïc Bourdeau

Published by Edinburgh University Press 2021

ReFocus

The Films of François Ozon

Loïc Bourdeau

In the series ReFocus: The International Directors Series

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474479936

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About this book

Examines François Ozon, one of France’s most prolific and best known international (queer) directors

Analyses films including Potiche, Frantz and By the Grace of God, and shows how Ozon’s work is deeply influenced by literature, cinema and music
Draws on recent theoretical developments in gender, queer and film studies
Each 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 context

A 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 Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Figures Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Notes on Contributors Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Introduction: In the Beginning Was the Word Loïc Bourdeau Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
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 Amy Bertram Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	13
2. François Ozon’s Sitcom and Politics of Form Tamara Tasevska Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	35
3. Queering the Trenches: Homoerotic Overtones in Frantz Helena Duffy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	52
4. The Crystal-image and Queer Ambiguity in Sous le sable Peadar Kearney Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	72
5. French Ozon/Global Ozon: French Specificity and Globalisation in Jeune & jolie Felicity Chaplin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	87
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 Jamie Steele Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	107
7. Bringing Up Baby in the Twenty-first Century: Le Refuge and the Ozonian Family Thibaut Schilt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	125
8. Transing Dynamics: Ozon’s Une Nouvelle amie Todd W. Reeser Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	143
9. Sex Wars in Potiche: Womanhood Then and Now Loïc Bourdeau Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	162
10. Female Creativity, Selfishness and Monstrosity in François Ozon’s Angel Fiona Handyside Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	181
11. From Faits Divers to Grandes Affaires: Giving Voice to Sexual Abuse Survivors in Grâce à Dieu Levilson C. Reis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	195
Filmography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	212
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	214

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Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 232
Illustrations
- Other: 32 B/W illustrations
Keywords: Film, Media & Cultural Studies

eBook

Published: April 5, 2022
ISBN: 9781474479936