François Ozon (French Film Directors Series) - Softcover

Asibong, Andrew

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1784992836 ISBN 13: 9781784992835

Publisher: Manchester University Press, 2016

Synopsis

Available in paperback for the first time, this is a full-length study of the films of François Ozon, director of such diverse films as 8 femmes, Swimming Pool, 5x2 and Les amants criminels. Andrew Asibong’s passionate and critical analysis focuses on the extent to which Ozon’s seemingly light touch never ceases to engage with the fundamentally weighty issue of existential transformation, a transformation that affects both his protagonists and his audiences.

A central question emerges: what is at stake, cinematically, ethically and politically, in Ozon’s alternatively utopian and cynical flirtation with the construction and deconstruction of contemporary social relations.

Revealing Ozon as a highly adept ‘fan’ of a whole range of thought, literature and cinema, Asibong places the precocious French auteur in an intellectual yet highly accessible critical framework, allowing Ozon’s importance for a thoroughly postmodern filmgoing generation to be given the attention it deserves.

About this title

About the Author:

Andrew Asibong is Reader in Film and Cultural Studies at Birkbeck, University of London

About this edition

• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1784992836
• ISBN 13: 9781784992835
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 168