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Masculine tenderness and macho violence
in Catherine Breillat
Chapter DOI:
https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526110671.00009
Online Publication Date:
16 May 2016
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Colin and Leo in Sex Is Comedy are not Catherine Breillat's first explorations of male gender identity. While sexual desire in Breillat's film tends to move the man and woman not only toward each other but toward another way of being that is beyond prescriptive gender roles. The sparks that fly between the violent cop and his shady lady in Maurice Pialat's film tend to polarise the genders in stereotypical opposition to each other. All the critics agree that Noria is 'characterised misogynistically as a femme fatale'. The more domineering Mangin is in his role as macho cop, the more deceptive and elusive Noria becomes in her role as femme fatale, for the two roles interact in a polarising fashion, pushing the genders apart into diametrically opposed stereotypes. In this sense, Sale comme un ange could be seen as a feminist revision of Pialat's polar, as a 'woman's film'.
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9781526110671
Publisher:
Manchester University Press
Cover Catherine Breillat
Subjects:
Film, Media and Music
Page Count:
28
Publisher:
Manchester University Press

Series: French Film Directors Series

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Cover Dance and politics

Dance and politics

Moving beyond boundaries

Author:
Dana Mills

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21 Nov 2016
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  1. Film, Media and Music
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Dance has always been a method of self- expression for human beings. This book examines the political power of dance and especially its transgressive potential. Focusing on readings of dance pioneers Isadora Duncan and Martha Graham, Gumboots dancers in the gold mines of South Africa, the One Billion Rising movement using dance to protest against gendered violence, dabkeh in Palestine and dance as protest against human rights abuse in Israel, the Sun Dance within the Native American Crow tribe, the book focuses on the political power of dance and moments in which dance transgresses politics articulated in words. Thus the book seeks ways in which reading political dance as interruption unsettles conceptions of politics and dance.

Cover It’s a London thing

It’s a London thing

How rare groove, acid house and jungle remapped the city

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Caspar Melville

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21 Nov 2019
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  1. Film, Media and Music
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This book discusses the emergence in London of three specific dance music multicultures in the context of the racialised city. Focusing on rare groove, acid house and jungle it places the emergence of these multi-racial music cultures in the context of theories of space and the historical forces which racialised the city in the late 20th century. Based on a wide range of original interviews with cultural producers – DJs, promoters, producers and dancers - undertaken over 20 years, read alongside cultural theory and contemporary accounts, it argues that music and the practices of space around music have been a crucial way in which racial segregation has been challenged and multiculture has emerged in London.

Cover Tony Garnett

Tony Garnett

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Stephen Lacey

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19 Jul 2013
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This is a book-length study of one of the most respected and prolific producers working in British television. From ground-breaking dramas from the 1960s such as Up the Junction and Cathy Come Home to the ‘must-see’ series in the 1990s and 2000s such as This Life and The Cops, Tony Garnett has produced some of the most important and influential British television drama. This book charts his career from his early days as an actor to his position as executive producer and head of World Productions, focusing on the ways in which he has helped to define the role of the creative producer, shaping the distinctive politics and aesthetics of the drama he has produced, and enabling and facilitating the contributions of others. Garnett's distinctive contribution to the development of a social realist aesthetic is also examined, through the documentary-inspired early single plays to the subversion of genre within popular drama series.