- Description
- 1 online resource (188 pages) : illustrations.
- Summary
- 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.
- Uniform Title
- Claude Chabrol's aesthetics of opacity (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Claude Chabrol's aesthetics of opacity (Online)
- Aesthetics of opacity
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 176-181), filmography (pages 166-175) and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Contents
- Contexts and influences -- Chabrol and genres -- The human beast -- Family secrets -- Chabrolean spaces as heterotopias of crisis -- Through the looking glass: Chabrol's mirrors and the 'crystal-image' -- Conclusion: Towards an aesthetics of visual opacity.
- LCCN
- 2018285549
- OCLC
- ssj0002065940
- Author
Dousteyssier-Khoze, Catherine.
- Title
Claude Chabrol's aesthetics of opacity [electronic resource] / Catherine Dousteyssier-Khoze.
- Imprint
Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2018]
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 176-181), filmography (pages 166-175) and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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