Céline Sciamma portraits
Céline Sciamma is the most visible and important feminist, and lesbian, director in contemporary international filmmaking. Her fourth feature, Portrait of a Lady on Fire, competed for the Palme d'Or at Cannes in 2019, and intervened directly in debates about the female gaze, sexuality, and spec...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Edinburgh
Edinburgh University Press
2021, [2021]©2021
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| Series: | Visionaries: thinking through female filmmakers
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| Collection: | JSTOR Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Summary: | Céline Sciamma is the most visible and important feminist, and lesbian, director in contemporary international filmmaking. Her fourth feature, Portrait of a Lady on Fire, competed for the Palme d'Or at Cannes in 2019, and intervened directly in debates about the female gaze, sexuality, and specifically how to look at and make a portrait of young women. In her approach to female, non-binary and queer identities, she has focused on the need for agency, binding this imperative into her aesthetic choices and modes of filmmaking. This is the first book-length study of Sciamma's films, focusing on the relationship of her work to the visual arts, and exploring the relevance of feminist theory to her unique perspective |
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| Physical Description: | viii, 128 pages illustrations |
| ISBN: | 1474425488 9781474425483 9781474440554 147444055X |