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Leos Carax (Paperback, New)
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Leos Carax (Paperback, New)
Series: French Film Directors Series
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Loot Price R425
Discovery Miles 4 250
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Leos Carax is a study of the films of this popular enfant terrible
of contemporary French cinema. The key ingredients and influences
of Carax's four films (including Les Amants du Pont Neuf and Pola
X) are examined here: Paris, pop music, flanerie and amour fou,
mannerist and neo-baroque aesthetics, the Nouvelle Vague and
contemporary naturalist cinema. philosophy of Cahiers-based film
criticism to theories of art and literature, in order to
disentangle the complex web of biographical mythology, formal and
intellectual cinematic concerns, flamboyant imagery and
intertextual references woven by Carax and his films in the last
two decades of the 20th century. Daly and Dowd argue that critical
instincts seeking the key to the visionary poetics of Carax's
cinema can most profitably directed towards the recent history of
maverick mannerist and baroque auteurs. From Ruiz and Rivette to
Garrel and Techine, and their explorations of the powers of the
false, rather than Godard or the cinema du look fraternity of
Besson and Beineix. fans and scholars of contemporary French
cinema.
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