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Breillat surely qualifies, and I can see how this film influenced her later work. This is a great subject for a film but it is arrived at a little too late. Considering gender and sex; can a woman be as sexually free as a man? Skip to content. Toggle navigation. The Cinema of Catherine Breillat. Get Books. Pornographie oder Pornokratie? Keesey also discusses the literature, films, paintings and photos that have influenced Breillat's work, and extends this to show how Breillat's films have influenced other filmmakers and artists in turn.

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The book thus adds to the present literature on extreme cinema and film theory, yet sets itself apart by fully deploying genre theory alongside the methodological and stylistic approaches of Stanley Cavell, Vivian Sobchack, Laura U. They are re-imagining horizontality. This volume offers new insights into the works of emerging and well-established directors alike, who all chose to place youth at the heart of their narrative and aesthetic concerns.

Showing how the topic of 'youth' has inspired filmmakers to explore and reinvent common tropes associated with young people, the book also addresses how the representation of youth can be used to mirror the tensions - political, social, religious, economic or cultural - that agitate a society at a given time in its history.

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