Chantal Akerman
By Marion Schmid
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Book Information
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 978-1-5261-1686-4
- Pages: 208
- Publisher: Manchester University Press
- Price: £14.99
- Published Date: June 2017
- BIC Category: Film and Media, PERFORMING ARTS / Individual Director, PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / Direction & Production, The arts / Individual film directors, film-makers
- Series: French Film Directors Series
Description
Chantal Akerman is widely acclaimed as one of cinema's boldest visionaries.
A towering figure in women's and feminist film-making, she produced a diverse and intensely personal body of work ranging from minimalist portraits of the everyday to exuberant romantic comedies, and from documentaries and musicals to installation art. This book traces the director's career at the crossroads between experimental and mainstream cinema, contextualising her work within the American avant-garde of the 1970s, European anti-naturalism, feminism and the post-modern aesthetics.
While offering an in-depth analysis of her multi-faceted film style, it also stresses the social and ethical dimension of her work, especially as regards her representation of marginal groups and her exploration of exilic and diasporic identities. Particular attention is given to the inscription of the Holocaust and of Jewish memory in her films.
Reviews
well informed and engagingly written
Contents
List of Plates
Series editor's foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction: the multiple faces of Chantal Akerman
1. The 1970s: anatomy of an avant-garde
2. The golden 80s: performance, parody, identity
3. The archaeology of suffering
4. Love and intimacy in a post-lapsarian world
Filmography
Select Bibliography
Index
Author
Marion Schmid is Reader in French at the University of Edinburgh
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