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Description for Jacques Demy
Paperback. Series Editor(s): Ingram, Robert; Holmes, Diana. Series: French Film Directors Series. Num Pages: 208 pages, 14 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: APFB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 26. Weight in Grams: 234.
Saccharine for some, poignant for others, Jacques Demy's 'enchanted' world is familiar to generations of French audiences accustomed to watching Christmas repeats of his fairytale Peau d'ane (1970) or seeing Catherine Deneuve and Francoise Dorleac prance and pirouette in Les Demoiselles de Rochefort (1966). Demy achieved international recognition with Les Parapluies de Cherbourg (1963), which was awarded the Palme d'Or at Cannes. However, beneath the apparently sugary coating of his films lie more philosophical reflections on some of the most pressing issues that preoccupy Western societies, including affect, subjectivity, self/other relations and free will. This wide-ranging ... Read more
Saccharine for some, poignant for others, Jacques Demy's 'enchanted' world is familiar to generations of French audiences accustomed to watching Christmas repeats of his fairytale Peau d'ane (1970) or seeing Catherine Deneuve and Francoise Dorleac prance and pirouette in Les Demoiselles de Rochefort (1966). Demy achieved international recognition with Les Parapluies de Cherbourg (1963), which was awarded the Palme d'Or at Cannes. However, beneath the apparently sugary coating of his films lie more philosophical reflections on some of the most pressing issues that preoccupy Western societies, including affect, subjectivity, self/other relations and free will. This wide-ranging ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Series
French Film Directors Series
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781526106995
SKU
V9781526106995
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About Darren Waldron
Darren Waldron is Senior Lecturer in French Screen Studies at the University of Manchester -- .
Reviews for Jacques Demy
This important work is long overdue'
(Dr Edward Royle, University of York, Reviews in History, 14/11/2013)
(Dr Edward Royle, University of York, Reviews in History, 14/11/2013)