Julia Dobson Livres

Focusing on the work of four contemporary French directors, this analysis explores their unique positioning between auteur and popular cinema. It examines how their films challenge traditional genre boundaries and address themes of gender, intimacy, and political representation. Through critical discussions of works by Dominique Cabrera, Laetitia Masson, Noémie Lvovsky, and Marion Vernoux, the book highlights the construction of social intimacy and the subversion of romance narratives, offering fresh insights into contemporary French film's political landscape.

Theatre serves as a pivotal metaphor and practice in Cixous' work, reflecting themes of difference, exile, love, and writing. This book contextualizes her theatrical contributions and provides in-depth analyses of her plays, illustrating how they dramatize the writing process. It emphasizes the significance of her theatrical expressions, which have often been overlooked, and invites readers to appreciate the interplay between her narratives and the art of performance.

Mapping Cinematic Norths presents an international range of research and enquiry into the significance, representation and manipulation of depictions of the ‘North’ in cinema and television. Northern landscapes, soundscapes, characters and narratives are defined and recognized as distinctive image-spaces within film and television. However, the ‘North’ is portrayed, exploited and interpreted in divergent ways by filmmakers and film audiences worldwide, and this volume sheds new light on these varying perspectives. Bringing together the work of established and emerging academics as well as practising filmmakers, this collection offers new critical insights into the coalescence of North-ness on screen, exploring examples from Britain, Scandinavia, continental Europe, Australia and the United States. With contextual consideration and close readings, these essays investigate concepts of the North on film from generic, national, aesthetic, theoretical, institutional and archival perspectives, charting and challenging the representations and preconceptions of the idea of North-ness across cultural and cinematic heritages.