Luc Besson

by Susan Hayward

Overview

Widely taught on Film Studies courses and in French Cultural Studies programmesLuc Besson is a popular and respected filmmaker who has achieved international fameA welcome addition to the French Film Directors series.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780719050763
Publisher:	Manchester University Press
Publication date:	01/29/1998
Series:	French Film Directors Series
Pages:	208
Product dimensions:	7.80(w) x 10.16(h) x 0.49(d)

About the Author

Susan Hayward is Professor of French at the University of Exeter

Table of Contents

1. Luc Besson the emerging filmmaker
2. Besson in context
3. Violence as performance
4. Constructing subjectivity in the absence of the father and the mother
Afterword

Editorial Reviews

Besson's films, on/>, were all made during the 1980s and 1990s. Hayward divides her study into four parts: the emerging filmmaker, Besson in context, violence as performance, and constructing subjectivity in the absence of a father and mother. Besson does not view himself as an , but as a ne/>. The director is characterized as a storyteller whose main characters experience difficulty in adapting to society and are prevented from achieving goals because they are in a state of dis-ease with a society that has, as he says, "unbalanced the family, creating emotional deprivation in young people up to the age of 20." No information is provided on Hayward. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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