Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource (192 pages)
Ausgabe:
1st ed
ISBN:
9781350478497
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0230336973
Serie:
Controversies
Inhalt:
Gaspar No̐¿ư's Irreversible is uncompromising and visceral, an essential piece of modern cinema. Punctuated by dazzling avant-garde techniques, the film depicts, in reverse-chronological order, a woman's rape and her boyfriend and friend's subsequent hunt for vengeance through the underworld of Paris. Confrontational yet influential, Irreversible has polarized audiences since its release in 2002, making it until now almost impossible to study dispassionately. This first book-length study of Irreversible situates No̐¿ư's work in the ecosystem of contemporary French media, exploring how Irreversible and a larger-scale cin̐¿ưma du corps actually inspired France's film resurgence in the early twenty-first century. From there, Palmer shows Irreversible to be one of the most subversive star vehicles in recent world cinema, in the form of its iconic lead performers, Vincent Cassel, Monica Bellucci, and Albert Dupontel. Investigating the spectrum of reactions created by No̐¿ư's film ̐¿ư through its pugnacious stylistic design, its on-screen deconstruction of Paris, its international critical reception and its unexpectedly utopian counterpoints to violence and despair ̐¿ư the book generates a new rational dialogue about Irreversible that challenges any instinct simply to reject or condemn it
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-155) and index
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1. Civilization and Its Discontents: Irreversible in the French Film Ecosystem 2. Irreversible and the Cin̐¿ưma du corps 3. Gaspar No̐¿ư: Alone Against Everything 4. No̐¿ư Destroys All Things: Irreversible's Narrative and Stylistic Design 5. Cassel, Bellucci, Dupontel: Irreversible as Rogue Star Vehicle 6. All of the Evil of This World: Irreversible's Critical Reception in France, the UK, and North America 7. Bellucci's Body: From Rape to Reverence.
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Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9781137478627
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ISBN 9780230336971
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ISBN 1137478624
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ISBN 9781137148223
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ISBN 1137148225
Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.1007/978-1-137-47862-7
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