Description
Examines Fran ois 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, Fran ois 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 Fran ois Ozon's cinema.
About the Author
Lo c Bourdeau is an Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. He has edited Horrible Mothers. Representation across Francophone North America (UNP, 2019) and ReFocus: The Films of Fran ois Ozon (EUP, 2021). He recently completed Revisiting HIV/AIDS in French Culture: Raw Matters (Lexington Books, 2022), co-edited with V. Hunter Capps. He launched and serves as series editor of New Directions in Francophone Studies: Diversity, Decolonization, Queerness (EUP).
Reviews
"From experimentations with genre and intertextuality to new visions of queerness and relationships, ReFocus: The Films of Fran ois Ozon captures the unique spirit of one of France's most idiosyncratic directors. Lo c Bourdeau's edited volume is intellectual yet creative, cohesive yet wide-ranging, inventive yet steeped in a rich cultural tradition. Much like Fran ois Ozon's cinema itself." -Gemma King, The Australian National University
Book Information
ISBN 9781474479929
Author Lo c Bourdeau
Format Paperback
Page Count 232
Imprint Edinburgh University Press
Publisher Edinburgh University Press
Series ReFocus: The International Directors Series
About the Author
Lo c Bourdeau is an Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. He has edited Horrible Mothers. Representation across Francophone North America (UNP, 2019) and ReFocus: The Films of Fran ois Ozon (EUP, 2021). He recently completed Revisiting HIV/AIDS in French Culture: Raw Matters (Lexington Books, 2022), co-edited with V. Hunter Capps. He launched and serves as series editor of New Directions in Francophone Studies: Diversity, Decolonization, Queerness (EUP).
Reviews
"From experimentations with genre and intertextuality to new visions of queerness and relationships, ReFocus: The Films of Fran ois Ozon captures the unique spirit of one of France's most idiosyncratic directors. Lo c Bourdeau's edited volume is intellectual yet creative, cohesive yet wide-ranging, inventive yet steeped in a rich cultural tradition. Much like Fran ois Ozon's cinema itself." -Gemma King, The Australian National University
Book Information
ISBN 9781474479929
Author Lo c Bourdeau
Format Paperback
Page Count 232
Imprint Edinburgh University Press
Publisher Edinburgh University Press
Series ReFocus: The International Directors Series
