Performative Opacity in the Work of Isabelle Huppert
Iggy Cortez, Ian Fleishman, (editors)
Engages with the career of Isabelle Huppert, a major figure in French, European, and World Cinema
- Offers analytic frameworks for performance aesthetics in dialogue with critical theory
- Offers new readings of important films through the lens of Huppert’s acting
- Uses Huppert to theorise screen performance aesthetics in dialogue with debates in the humanities on negativity, affect, and gender
Performative Opacity in the Work of Isabelle Huppert argues that the career of this singular French actor—constituting a corpus of well over a hundred films—offers a unique testing ground for current approaches in film studies and affect studies.
Attention to Huppert’s performances can reframe recent discussions on the social and cultural dimensions of emotion and normativity through a compelling paradox: her roles tend to express grandiose and overwhelming conditions central to debates in the humanities—negativity, dispossession, trauma—but through elusive and at times resistant or diminutive forms of expression: what J. Hoberman once called her genius
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Year:
2023
Publisher:
Edinburgh University Press
Language:
english
Pages:
168
ISBN 10:
1474479855
ISBN 13:
9781474479851
File:
PDF, 4.57 MB
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english, 2023