The nimble, creative spirit of Québécois screenwriter and filmmaker, Denis Villeneuve, is reflected in his varied body of work. Villeneuve explores questions of alterity and interculturality, of language and identity, of memory and forgetting, of violence and retribution, throughout his filmography: Un 32 août sur terre (1998), Maelström (2000), Polytechnique (2009), Incendies (2010), Enemy (2013), Prisoners (2013), Sicario (2015), Arrival (2016), Blade Runner 2049 (2017) and Dune: Part 1 (2021).
This edited collection brings together original works of scholarship on all of Villeneuve’s feature films from different theoretical approaches, in order to deepen our understanding of this important and yet relatively understudied director; read individually or as a collective whole, these studies reveal important elements of Villeneuve’s filmic practice, as well as the evolutions of his oeuvre.

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Kester Dyer; Jeri English; Alex Frohlick; Christophe Gelly; Melanie Kreitler; Brenda Longfellow; Kingsley Marshall; Trip McCrossin; Terrance H McDonald; Marie Pascal

ReFocus: The International Directors Series : RFIDS, Edinburgh, 2023

United Kingdom and Ireland, United Kingdom

Mobilism

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Critically examines the work of Québécois filmmakers Denis VilleneuveEngages with all of Villeneuve's feature films (some individually and some comparatively), including those that have up until now received little critical attentionProposes original analyses of all the films from multiple critical and theoretical approaches (thematic, sociocultural, formal, ontological, feminist, allegorical, narrative, spectatorial, intertextual) which both contribute to current scholarship and serve as a resource for undergraduate and graduate studentsOffers a clear overview of Villeneuve's contributions to contemporary cinema, both in a Québécois context and with regards to his Hollywood filmsThe nimble, creative spirit of Québécois screenwriter and filmmaker, Denis Villeneuve, is reflected in his varied body of work. Villeneuve explores questions of alterity and interculturality, of language and identity, of memory and forgetting, of violence and retribution, throughout his filmography: Un 32 août sur terre (1998), Maelström (2000), Polytechnique (2009), Incendies (2010), Enemy (2013), Prisoners (2013), Sicario (2015), Arrival (2016), Blade Runner 2049 (2017) and Dune: Part 1 (2021).This edited collection brings together original works of scholarship on all of Villeneuve's feature films from different theoretical approaches, in order to deepen our understanding of this important and yet relatively understudied director; read individually or as a collective whole, these studies reveal important elements of Villeneuve's filmic practice, as well as the evolutions of his oeuvre

Contents
Figures
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
Chapter 1 Denis Villeneuve, Québécois and Citizen of the World
Chapter 2 Science Fiction, National Rebirth and Messianism in Un 32 août sur terre
Chapter 3 Close-ups and Gros Plans: Denis Villeneuve the Macrophage
Chapter 4 Reproductive Futurism and the Woman Problem in the Films of Denis Villeneuve
Chapter 5 Filming Missing Bodies: ‘Bodiless-Character Films’ and the Presence of Absence in Denis Villeneuve’s Cinema
Chapter 6 Life, Risk and the Structuring Force of Exposure in Maelström
Chapter 7 The Self as Other and the Other as Self: Identity, Doubling and Misrecognition in Incendies, Enemy and Blade Runner 2049
Chapter 8 Villeneuve’s Hidden Monsters: Representations of Evil in Prisoners and Sicario
Chapter 9 Beyond Complexity: Narrative Experimentation and Genre Development in Enemy
Chapter 10 Subjectivity and Cinematic Space in Blade Runner 2049
Chapter 11 Mere Data Makes a Man: Artificial Intelligences in Blade Runner 2049
Chapter 12 Shortening the Way: Villeneuve’s Dune as Film and as Project
Filmography
Bibliography
Index
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"This edited collection brings together original works of scholarship on all of Villeneuve's feature films from different theoretical approaches, in order to deepen our understanding of this important and yet relatively understudied director; read individually or as a collective whole, these studies reveal important elements of Villeneuve's filmic practice, as well as the evolutions of his oeuvre."-- Provided by publisher

2023-11-03