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Diane Kurys
Series: French Film Directors Series
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Carrie Tarr traces Kurys' trajectory from actress to author-director-producer of her own films in a career that already spans two decades, and situates her work within debates on women's film-making and female authorship.
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Carrie Tarr's analysis of the cinema of Diane Kurys is a full-length study of this director, whose delightfully unsentimental reconstructions of the lives of girls and women in post-war France have established her as a distinctive presence in contemporary French filmmaking.
Carrie Tarr traces Kurys' trajectory from actress to author-director producer of her own films in a career that already spans two decades, and situates her work within debates on women's filmmaking and female authorship.
The book includes detailed readings of each of Kurys' films to date, from the evocation of growing up in the 1960s in Diabolo menthe to the dilemmas facing the woman artist of today in A la folie.
The conclusion draws together Kurys' thematic preoccupations and visual style in order to identify her authorial signature, and illuminates the extent to which she has been able to create a space for female subjectivity within the constraints of contemporary French culture.
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ISBN: 9780719050954
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 18 February 1999
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Illustration: Illustrations, black & white
Audience: Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly
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Spine width: 10.0mm
Width: 129.0mm
Height: 198.0mm
Weight: 200g
Pages: 176
About the Author
Carrie Tarr is Senior Research Fellow at Thames Valley University, London
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