| François Ozon Contributor(s): Asibong, Andrew (Author) |
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ISBN: 0719074231 ISBN-13: 9780719074233 Publisher: Manchester University Press OUR PRICE: $123.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: September 2008 Annotation: The first full-length study in any language of the films of Francois Ozon, director of a clutch of award-winning shorts in the mid-1990s and increasingly celebrated features, such as the star-studded millennial classic of high camp, "8 femmes" (2001). |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Performing Arts | Film - History & Criticism - Performing Arts | Individual Director |
| Series: French Film Directors (Hardcover) |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.3" W x 7.8" (0.60 lbs) 168 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This is the first 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 of 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. |