François Ozon - Couverture souple

Asibong, Andrew

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1784992836 ISBN 13 : 9781784992835

Editeur : Manchester University Press, 2016

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

This book is the first full-length study of the films of François Ozon. From his clutch of provocative and award-winning shorts in the mid-1990s to his increasingly celebrated features, including Swimming Pool, Les Amants criminels and 5x2, as well as the star-studded, millennial classic of high camp, 8 femmes, Ozon's films have remained simultaneously seductive and experimental, playful and gruesome. What emerges from Andrew Asibong's passionate and highly engaged scrutiny of Ozon's cinema, however, is the extent to which the director's breezily confrontational work throws up urgent and unavoidable questions about the cinematic representation of psychic, familial, social and even ontological transformation. Asibong considers how Ozon's apparently subversive explorations of feminine and queer desire, as well as his ongoing fascination with sadomasochistic power relations, all operate at a far more ambivalent psychoanalytic and political level than either Ozon's champions or detractors seem willing to admit. He then goes on to suggest what may be at stake in Ozon's alternately utopian and cynical flirtation with the construction and deconstruction of contemporary human relationships on film. Asibong also assesses Ozon's idiosyncratic contribution to the excessive film genres horror, musical and melodrama and posits that his manipulation of these Hollywood staples teases out their potentially ethical function as well as merely re-configuring their aesthetics in a contemporary French context. Revealing Ozon as the evident fan of a wide range of international writing and filmmaking, Asibong places the precocious auteur in a multi-layered yet highly accessible critical framework, allowing Ozon's importance for a seen it all filmgoing generation at last to be given the clear-sighted analysis it deserves.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Andrew Asibong is Lecturer in the Department of French, Birkbeck, University of London.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Manchester University Press
• Date d'édition: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1784992836
• ISBN 13: 9781784992835
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 168