Isabelle Huppert, modernist performance /

"Isabelle Huppert's oeuvre constitutes the most significant body fo feminist work to have emerged in the wake of the second wave of the women's movement, a period of intense social change. The emphasis on autonomy which defines Huppert's persona is supported by a modernist style...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Jacobowitz, Florence, 1957- (Author)
Other Authors:	Toubiana, Serge (Author of introduction, etc.)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Detroit : Wayne State University Press, [2024]
Subjects:	Huppert, Isabelle > Criticism and interpretation. Actors > France. Feminism and motion pictures. Acteurs > France. Féminisme et cinéma.

Table of Contents:

Modernist performance : une modernité de jeu
Huppert and Godard : acting degree zero
A woman's film : une affaire de femmes
Huppert and Bovarysme : "archetypes of dissatisfaction"
La pianiste and the modernist melodrama
Reading Elle
Celebrating the outlier : Villa Amalia, L'avenir, In another country.