Bertrand Blier

Sue Harris, Diana Holmes, Robert Ingram , Bethan Hirst

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MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY PRE
09 August 2001

Individual film directors, film-makers; Biography: arts & entertainment

Series: French Film Directors Series

Sue Harris's reading of the films of Bertrand Blier, the ""enfant terrible"" of contemporary French filmmaking, is as provocative as some of the works themselves. In a complete study of Blier's work to date, Sue Harris traces the director's career from the early 1960s until the present, outlining the forms, themes and style which dominate in his work, and challenging the many labels that have been used to describe both the corpus of films and the man himself. Sue Harris provides a controversial discussion of Blier's alleged ""misogyny"", and invites the reader to understand the scatological, corporeal and ludic aspects of Blier's filmmaking in terms of long-established traditions of popular dramatic culture. By bringing to light the comic mechanisms underpinning Blier's films, Sue Harris identifies strategies which allow the student, critic and curious filmgoer to find their way through one of the most entertaining and disconcerting bodies of work of recent years. This lucid discussion of Blier's films will be of interest to students, academics and French film enthusiasts everywhere.

By: Sue Harris
Series edited by: Diana Holmes, Robert Ingram
Other: Bethan Hirst
Imprint: MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY PRE
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 11mm
Weight: 204g
ISBN: 9780719052972
ISBN 10: 0719052971
Series: French Film Directors Series
Pages: 176
Publication Date: 09 August 2001
Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , ELT Advanced , A / AS level
Format: Other merchandise
Publisher's Status: Active

List of Plates Series Editors' Foreward Acknowledgements Introduction 1. 'L'impossible Monsieur B.B…' 2. A Cinema of the Absurd 3. Festive Madness: the carnival as structuring motif 4. Bending gender 5. A farewell to arms: Blier's 'second career' Conclusion Filmography Select bibliography Index -- .

Sue Harris is Lecturer in French at Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London