Format:
1 Online-Ressource (vi, 202 pages)
Edition:
2014
ISBN:
9781501312526
,
9781501312502
Content:
Introduction -- 1. La Cérémonie (1995): Diary of a Chambermaid -- 2. Rien ne va plus (1997): Preparation Meets Opportunity -- 3. Au Cœur du mensonge (1999): The Fabric of Vision -- 4. Merci pour le chocolat (2000): Cause and Effect -- 5. La Fleur du mal (2003): Keeping it in the Family -- 6. La Demoiselle d'honneur (2004): Criss-Cross, Motives and Murder -- 7. L'Ivresse du pouvoir (2006): Not Following the Rules of the Game -- 8. La Fille coupée en deux (2007): Killing the Beast -- 9. Bellamy (2009): More than Meets the Eye -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Content:
A member of the French New Wave group of filmmakers who first came to prominence at the end of the 1950s, Claude Chabrol has received the least amount of critical and scholarly attention, although he was the more prolific and commercially successful of them all. Jacob Leigh fills this lacuna by focusing on the last nine feature films of Chabrol's career, exploring his imagery, camerawork, use of sound and music, and performances, revealing the stylistic characteristics of his films while identifying the fundamental thematic issues that lie at the heart of his career-length exploration of the relationship between individuals and societies. Key areas of focus includes Chabrol's careful depiction of upper-class settings in films such as La Cérémonie (1995), Merci pour le chocolat (2000) and La Fille coupée en deux (2007) and on what Robin Wood and Michael Walker call 'the beast in man' (1970), the quasi-sympathetic 'id-figures' of which Le Boucher's Popaul is the most celebrated. Chabrol's 'id-figures' inherit the traits of Shadow of a Doubt's Uncle Charlie, Rope's Brandon and Strangers on a Train's Bruno, all three of whom have characteristics of the Nietzsche-quoting psychopath familiar in crime fiction. Additionally, The Late Films of Claude Chabrol considers the influence on Chabrol of a range of significant writers, including Patrick Hamilton, Patricia Highsmith, Charlotte Armstrong and Ruth Rendell
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781501312496
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Leigh, Jacob, 1967 - The late films of Claude Chabrol New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2017 ISBN 9781501312496
Language:
English
Subjects:
General works
Keywords:
Chabrol, Claude 1930-2010
;
Film
;
Geschichte 1995-2009
;
Chabrol, Claude 1930-2010
;
Film
;
Geschichte 1995-2009
DOI:
10.5040/9781501312526
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781501312526
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