Updates and reapplies film theory to French director Claire Denis's films, with a particular focus on her most recent work Features essays on all of Denis's fiction and documentary World leading Denis scholars Innovative readings of Denis in the 21st Century ReFocus: The Films of Claire Denis comprises 14 original works of criticism from world leading Denis scholars and early career researchers. With contributors from as far afield as Canada and Australia, the collection offers a global perspective on Denis' films. It includes an accessible introduction for those new to Denis studies, providing biographical details, an overview of thematic interests, and a brief survey of the most salient and influential trends in Denis scholarship. The first collection of scholarly essays on Denis, and the first major work of criticism on one of the contemporary period's most influential and renowned directors for almost a decade, ReFocus: The Films of Claire Denis is a timely and important contribution to Denis studies and to transnational cinema studies more broadly.

About the Author
Peter Sloane is Senior Lecturer and Programme Director in English at the University of Buckingham, UK.

Reviews
"This beautifully wide-ranging collection approaches Claire Denis's films through an impressively diverse set of methodologies. Thinking across dimensions of ethics and otherness, the body and its environments, the familial and the worldly, The Films of Claire Denis opens exciting new ways to encounter this rich body of work." -Rosalind Galt, King's College London



Book Information
ISBN 9781399511209
Author Peter Sloane
Format Hardback
Page Count 320
Imprint Edinburgh University Press
Publisher Edinburgh University Press