Catherine Breillat /
This is the first English-language book on controversial female director Catherine Breillat, whose films include Romance, A ma soeur! (Fat Girl), Anatomy of Hell and The Last Mistress. This volume explores the director's complex relation to religion and to feminism, and it examines the differen...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Manchester :
Manchester University Press,
2016
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| Series: | French film directors.
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- List of plates
- Series editors' foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1. Female virgins and the shaming gaze
- 2. Sisters as one soul in two bodies
- 3. Masculine tendencies and macho violence
- 4. Staging masochism, facing shame
- Conclusion
- Filmography
- Select bibliography
- Index.
