Francois Ozon

This is the first full-length study of the films of Francois 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.

ISBN 0719074231   Pages 168 ISBN13 9780719074233 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher Manchester University Press   Weight (grammes) 272 Imprint Manchester University Press   Published in Manchester Format Hardback   Series title French Film Directors Publication date 01 Sep 2008   Height (mm) 198 Library of Congress PN1998.3   Width (mm) 129 DEWEY 791.430233092   Spine width (mm) 18 DEWEY edition DC22   Academic level Undergraduate

		List of Plates
		Family filmmaker: an introduction to Francois Ozon		1
1		Desire unlimited: sexualities on the move?		10
2		Master and servant: society, spectacle and sadomasochisticcinema		48
3		Shadow of the spectre: cinema beyond relation?		81
4		Blood, tears and song: genre and the shock of over-stimulation		112
		A drop in the ocean: concluding remarks		140
		Filmography		143
		Select Bibliography		150
		Index		153

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