Mathieu Kassovitz

Mathieu Kassovitz is arguably the most important filmmaker to have emerged from French cinema in the past two decades. As a director, his work often engages with highly controversial socio-political issues whilst still managing to attract and connect with a popular audience - and, above all, with a youth audience. He is also one of the few contemporary French filmmakers who is capable of productively engaging with Hollywood, in terms of cinematic style, narrative and genre, yet still retaining his own identity as a French filmmaker. In addition to his directorial successes, Kassovitz has also achieved considerable critical and commercial success in France as a screen actor. His films - whether directed by or acted in, or both - show an astonishing variety, from his early Metisse (1993), his break-through, La Haine (1995) through to Jeunet's Le fabuleux destin d'Amelie Poulain (2000), Asterix et Obelix: Mission Cleopatre (2002) and Gothika (2003). Will Higbee's study is the first to explore of one of the most fascinating characters in French cinema.

ISBN 0719071461   Pages 224 ISBN13 9780719071461 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher Manchester University Press   Weight (grammes) 363 Imprint Manchester University Press   Published in Manchester Format Hardback   Series title French Film Directors Publication date 28 Feb 2007   Height (mm) 198 Library of Congress PN   Width (mm) 129 DEWEY 791.430233092   Spine width (mm) 19 DEWEY edition DC22   Academic level Undergraduate, Professional / Scholarly

1		The popular polemicist		6
2		Social struggles in the popular sphere		49
3		Postmodern social fables		95
4		Interfacing with Hollywood		127
5		Kassovitz : the actor/auteur		172

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