- Additional Authors
- Dyer, Kester.
- English, Jeri.
- Frohlick, Alex.
- Gelly, Christophe.
- Kreitler, Melanie.
- Longfellow, Brenda.
- Marshall, Kingsley.
- McCrossin, Trip.
- McDonald, Terrance H.
- Pascal, Marie.
- Ransom, Amy J.
- Roche, David.
- Sanders, Emily.
- Found In
- Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2023 9783110797640
- Description
- 1 online resource (238 p.) : 34 B/W illustrations 34 B&W images.
- Summary
- Critically examines the work of Québécois filmmakers Denis VilleneuveEngages with all of Villeneuve's feature films (some individually and some comparatively), including those that have up until now received little critical attentionProposes original analyses of all the films from multiple critical and theoretical approaches (thematic, sociocultural, formal, ontological, feminist, allegorical, narrative, spectatorial, intertextual) which both contribute to current scholarship and serve as a resource for undergraduate and graduate studentsOffers a clear overview of Villeneuve's contributions to contemporary cinema, both in a Québécois context and with regards to his Hollywood filmsThe nimble, creative spirit of Québécois screenwriter and filmmaker, Denis Villeneuve, is reflected in his varied body of work. Villeneuve explores questions of alterity and interculturality, of language and identity, of memory and forgetting, of violence and retribution, throughout his filmography: Un 32 août sur terre (1998), Maelström (2000), Polytechnique (2009), Incendies (2010), Enemy (2013), Prisoners (2013), Sicario (2015), Arrival (2016), Blade Runner 2049 (2017) and Dune: Part 1 (2021).This edited collection brings together original works of scholarship on all of Villeneuve's feature films from different theoretical approaches, in order to deepen our understanding of this important and yet relatively understudied director; read individually or as a collective whole, these studies reveal important elements of Villeneuve's filmic practice, as well as the evolutions of his oeuvre.
- Series Statement
- ReFocus: The International Directors Series : RFIDS
- Uniform Title
- ReFocus: The Films of Denis Villeneuve (Online)
- Subject
- Motion picture producers and directors > Canada > Criticism and interpretation
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- System Details (note)
- Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
- Language (note)
- Contents
- Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Denis Villeneuve, Québécois and Citizen of the World -- Chapter 2 Science Fiction, National Rebirth and Messianism in Un 32 août sur terre -- Chapter 3 Close-ups and Gros Plans: Denis Villeneuve the Macrophage -- Chapter 4 Reproductive Futurism and the Woman Problem in the Films of Denis Villeneuve -- Chapter 5 Filming Missing Bodies: 'Bodiless-Character Films' and the Presence of Absence in Denis Villeneuve's Cinema -- Chapter 6 Life, Risk and the Structuring Force of Exposure in Maelström -- Chapter 7 The Self as Other and the Other as Self: Identity, Doubling and Misrecognition in Incendies, Enemy and Blade Runner 2049 -- Chapter 8 Villeneuve's Hidden Monsters: Representations of Evil in Prisoners and Sicario -- Chapter 9 Beyond Complexity: Narrative Experimentation and Genre Development in Enemy -- Chapter 10 Subjectivity and Cinematic Space in Blade Runner 2049 -- Chapter 11 Mere Data Makes a Man: Artificial Intelligences in Blade Runner 2049 -- Chapter 12 Shortening the Way: Villeneuve's Dune as Film and as Project -- Filmography -- Bibliography -- Index
- LCCN
- 10.1515/9781474497404
- OCLC
- ssj0002835724
- Title
ReFocus: The Films of Denis Villeneuve [electronic resource] / ed. by Jeri English.
- Imprint
Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2023]
- Digital File Characteristics
text file PDF
- Series
ReFocus: The International Directors Series : RFIDS
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
- System Details
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
- Language
In English.
- Source of description
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Feb 2023)
- Connect to:
- Added Author
Dyer, Kester.
English, Jeri.
English, Jeri.
Frohlick, Alex.
Gelly, Christophe.
Kreitler, Melanie.
Longfellow, Brenda.
Marshall, Kingsley.
McCrossin, Trip.
McDonald, Terrance H.
Pascal, Marie.
Ransom, Amy J.
Roche, David.
Sanders, Emily.
- Found In:
Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2023 9783110797640
- Other Standard Identifier
10.1515/9781474497404 doi