Claude Chabrol's Aesthetics of Opacity

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de Catherine Dousteyssier-Khoze

Type: Etudes
Sujet: Réalisateur > Claude Chabrol
Mots Clés: Claude Chabrol, réalisateur, France
Année d'édition: 2017
Editeur: Edinburgh University Press
Langue: anglais

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Relié • 200 pages
15,5 x 23,5 cm

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978-0-7486-9260-6

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Description de l'ouvrage :
The first critical appraisal of Chabrol's œuvre as a whole (from 1958 to 2009)

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.

Key features
• Uncovers new influences on Chabrol, including Balzac, Magritte and Kubrick
• Offers original insights into Chabrol’s most famous film, Le Boucher
• Analyses some of Chabrol’s latest, little studied films (La Fleur du mal, La Demoiselle d’honneur, La Fille coupée en deux and Bellamy)
• Engages with Foucault’s concept of heterotopia and Deleuze's ‘crystal-image’
• Surveys Chabrol’s influence and legacy on the contemporary French thriller

À propos de l'auteur :
Catherine Dousteyssier-Khoze is Reader in French at Durham University. She specializes in (19th-century) French literature and French film. She is also the author of a début novel, La logique de l’amanite (Grasset, 2015).

Revue de Presse :
Seven years after his death, this is a timely appraisal of Chabrol’s work. Dousteyssier-Khoze shows how Chabrol is more indebted to Balzac than we may have thought. She deftly navigates his serial killers, and shows how Deleuze’s crystal-image and Foucault’s heterotopia can illuminate Chabrol’s manipulation of space and time.– Professor Phil Powrie, University of Surrey

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