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The Late Films of Claude Chabrol - Genre, Visual Expressionism and Narrational Ambiguity (Hardcover)
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The Late Films of Claude Chabrol - Genre, Visual Expressionism and Narrational Ambiguity (Hardcover)
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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 Ceremonie (1995), Merci
pour le chocolat (2000) and La Fille coupee 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.
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