David Roche

Cristelle Maury

Women Who Kill explores several lines of inquiry: the female murderer as a figure that destabilizes order; the tension between criminal and victim; the relationship between crime and expression (or the lack thereof); and the paradox whereby a crime can be both an act of destruction and a creative assertion of agency. In doing so, the contributors assess the influence of feminist, queer and gender studies on mainstream television and cinema, notably in the genres (film noir, horror, melodrama) that have received the most critical attention from this perspective. They also analyse the politics of representation by considering these works of fiction in their contexts and addressing some of the ambiguities raised by postfeminism. The book is structured in three parts: Neo-femmes Fatales; Action Babes and Monstrous Women. Films examined include White Men Are Cracking Up (1994); Hit & Miss (2012); Gone Girl (2014); Terminator (1984); The Walking Dead (2010); Mad Max: Fury Road (2015); Contagion (2011) and Ex Machina(2015) among others.

Gender and Sexuality in Film and Series of the Post-Feminist Era

Women Who Kill

The first book-length study of meta-phenomena in film and television series.

Meta in Film and Television Series

A partir d'un corpus composé d'œuvres des écrivains Russell Banks, Raymond Carver et Bret Easton Ellis et des cinéastes David Cronenberg et David Lynch, s'appuyant sur les écrits de J. Butler, Foucault, Freud, Lacan, Ricœur, Charles Taylor, C. Rosset et J.-M. Schaeffer, l'auteur propose dans cet ouvrage une réflexion sur la notion de"malsain". L'auteur s'interroge sur la pertinence de cette métaphore médicale, sur les raisons qui poussent le sujet à "consommer" des fictions au contenu scabreux et sur la possibilité de distinguer l'art du symptôme.

Russell BANKS, Raymond CARVER, David CRONENBERG, Bret Easton ELLIS, - David LYNCH

L'imagination malsaine

An expansive treatment of the meanings and qualities of original and remade American horror movies

Why Don’t They Do It Like They Used To?

Making and Remaking Horror in the 1970s and 2000s

On Subbing; Issue 4

Isabelle Schmitt-Pitiot

Though intimacy has been a wide concern in the humanities, it has received little critical attention in film studies. This collection of new essays investigates both the potential intimacy of cinema as a medium and the possibility of a cinema of intimacy where it is least expected. As a notion defined by binaries—inside and outside, surface and depth, public and private, self and other—intimacy, because it implies sharing, calls into question the boundaries between these extremes, and the border separating mainstream cinema and independent or auteur cinema. Following on Thomas Elsaesser’s theories of the relationship between the intimacy of cinema and the cinema of intimacy, the essays explore intimacy in silent and classic Hollywood movies, underground, documentary and animation films; and contemporary Hollywood, British, Canadian and Australian cinema from a variety of approaches.

Critical Essays on English Language Films

Intimacy in Cinema

Hervé Mayer

-- This book redefines American productions of the Western genre as an expression of a transnational ideology and culture of imperialism. Reviewers agree that this collection offers the most impressive sampling of the vast number of global Westerns produced from the silent era to the present day, compared to other publications in recent years on the Western. -- IUP is a leading publisher in areas of film and media studies related to this book including early and silent film, national cinemas, and Italian and French film. This fulfills a goal outlined in IUP's strategic plan to bring an international scope to the discipline. -- The audience is scholarly and the book is highly likely to be recommended as a library purchase. It will reach scholars and students studying the Western genre, critical film theory, and the cultural history of colonialism and imperialism.

Endurance of the Global Western Film

Transnationalism and Imperialism

Quentin Tarantino’s films beg to be considered metafiction: metacommentaries that engage with the history of cultural representations and exalt the aesthetic, ethical, and political potential of creation as re-re-creation and resignification. Covering all eight of Quentin Tarantino’s films according to certain themes, David Roche combines cultural studies and neoformalist approaches to highlight how closely the films’ poetics and politics are intertwined. Each in-depth chapter focuses on a salient feature, some which have drawn much attention (history, race, gender, violence), others less so (narrative structure, style, music, theatricality). Roche sets Tarantino’s films firmly in the legacy of Howard Hawks, Jean-Luc Godard, Sergio Leone, and the New Hollywood, revising the image of a cool pop-culture purveyor that the American director cultivated at the beginning of his career. Roche emphasizes the breadth and depth of his films’ engagement with culture, highbrow and lowbrow, screen and print, American, East Asian, and European.

Poetics and Politics of Cinematic Metafiction

Quentin Tarantino

Though intimacy has been a wide concern in the humanities, it has received little critical attention in film studies. This collection of new essays investigates both the potential intimacy of cinema as a medium and the possibility of a cinema of intimacy where it is least expected. As a notion defined by binaries--inside and outside, surface and depth, public and private, self and other--intimacy, because it implies sharing, calls into question the boundaries between these extremes, and the border separating mainstream cinema and independent or auteur cinema. Following on Thomas Elsaesser's theories of the relationship between the intimacy of cinema and the cinema of intimacy, the essays explore intimacy in silent and classic Hollywood movies, underground, documentary and animation films; and contemporary Hollywood, British, Canadian and Australian cinema from a variety of approaches.

We've had the credit crunch and afterwards a deep economic recession. Now get ready for a sovereign debt crisis after the biggest rise in government debt globally since world war two.

Sovereign DisCredit

Women Who Kill explores several lines of inquiry: the female murderer as a figure that destabilizes order; the tension between criminal and victim; the relationship between crime and expression (or the lack thereof); and the paradox whereby a crime can be both an act of destruction and a creative assertion of agency. In doing so, the contributors assess the influence of feminist, queer and gender studies on mainstream television and cinema, notably in the genres (film noir, horror, melodrama) that have received the most critical attention from this perspective. They also analyse the politics of representation by considering these works of fiction in their contexts and addressing some of the ambiguities raised by postfeminism. The book is structured in three parts: Neo-femmes Fatales; Action Babes and Monstrous Women. Films and series examined include White Men Are Cracking Up (1994); Hit & Miss (2012); Gone Girl (2014); Terminator (1984); The Walking Dead (2010); Mad Max: Fury Road (2015); Contagion (2011) and Ex Machina (2015) among others.

Democracy caused the debt crisis. Will it survive it? The question is whether new global leaders will stimulate the democratic model

Democrisis

1944. La France est occupée par les nazis. Aldo Raine et ses hommes, les Basterds, envoyés par les Etats-Unis pour semer la terreur dans les rangs de l'armée de Hitler, se voient confier une mission capitale : faire sauter l'état-major allemand dans un cinéma parisien lors de la première d'un film de propagande. Mais les Basterds ne sont pas les seuls à saisir cette occasion : unique rescapée d'une famille juive, Shosanna Dreyfus, propriétaire du cinéma Le Gamaar, médite elle aussi sa vengeance. Avec ce sixième long-métrage virtuose qui réécrit l'histoire, le réalisateur de Pulp Fiction démontre, en multipliant les hommages et les clins d'oeil, son amour passionné du septième art sous toutes ses formes, des grands classiques aux films de genre. Il affirme aussi une ambition politique : faire du cinéma qui prenne à bras-le-corps des enjeux idéologiques très actuels, tels que l'antisémitisme, le racisme, le féminisme ou l'exercice de la violence.

Inglorious Basterds de Quentin Tarantino

Quentin Tarantino's films beg to be considered metafiction: metacommentaries that engage with the history of cultural representations and exalt the aesthetic, ethical, and political potential of creation as re-re-creation and resignification. Covering all eight of Quentin Tarantino's films according to certain themes, David Roche combines cultural studies and neoformalist approaches to highlight how closely the films' poetics and politics are intertwined. Each in-depth chapter focuses on a salient feature, some which have drawn much attention (history, race, gender, violence), others less so (narrative structure, style, music, theatricality). Roche sets Tarantino's films firmly in the legacy of Howard Hawks, Jean-Luc Godard, Sergio Leone, and the New Hollywood, revising the image of a cool pop-culture purveyor that the American director cultivated at the beginning of his career. Roche emphasizes the breadth and depth of his films' engagement with culture, highbrow and lowbrow, screen and print, American, East Asian, and European.

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