Leos Carax

Name: Leos Carax
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ISBN: 9780719063152

ISBN-10: 0719063159

ISBN-13: 9780719063152

Edition: 2003

Authors: Fergus Daly, Garin Dowd, Diana Holmes, Robert Ingram

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Leos Carax is the first book in any language to study the films of this "enfant terrible" of contemporary French cinema. Paris, pop music, "flnerie" and "amour fou," "mannerist" and "neo-baroque" aesthetics, the Nouvelle Vague and contemporary "naturalist" cinema--these key ingredients of the worlds of Carax's four films (including Les Amants du Pont Neuf and Pola X) are examined here. The authors draw on a variety of intellectual sources, from Deleuze's philosophy and Cahiers-based film criticism to the theory of art and literary monographs in order to disentangle the complex web of biographical mythology, formal and intellectual cinematic concerns, flamboyant imagery and intertextual…

Book details

List price: $22.95
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Publication date: 10/23/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 200
Size: 5.08" wide x 7.80" long x 0.43" tall
Weight: 0.440
Language: English



Introduction: Genesis of Carax's System


A Pierrot apart;Boy Meets Girl(1984)(1986) and the Nouvelle Vague Inheritance



Feux d'artifice:Les Amants du Pont-Neuf(1991) and the Spectacle of Vagrancy


Carax's Ambiguities:Pola X(1999)



Filmography


Introduction: Genesis of Carax's System


A Pierrot apart;Boy Meets Girl(1984)(1986) and the Nouvelle Vague Inheritance



Feux d'artifice(1991) and the Spectacle of Vagrancy



Carax's Ambiguities:Pola X(1999)



Filmography