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About the Author
Jeri English is an Associate Professor of French and Women's & Gender Studies at the University of Toronto Scarborough (Canada). Her teaching and research areas include feminist literary, film and cultural theories, contemporary French cinema and 20th and 21st century French women writers. She recently published a chapter in Screening Youth: Contemporary French and Francophone Cinema (EUP, 2019), and has an article appearing in a forthcoming issue of Dalhousie French Studies. Her current research project examines the monstrous, the abject and the uncanny in contemporary Science Fiction films.Marie Pascal is an Assistant Professor of French and Qu bec literature and film at King's University College at Western University (Canada). Her research deals with the questions of the Other and abjection in the arts. She has also written on the reception of cinematographic adaptations which she calls 'transcreations' in the Qu bec canon. She has previously published works in Revue d' tudes cin matographiques, and ReFocus: The Films of Xavier Dolan (EUP, 2019). She is currently directing an issue of Dalhousie French Studies dedicated to the concept of abjection in literature and cinema and recently founded Transcr( )ation, a journal dedicated to adaptation and transmediality.
Reviews
"This rich volume of essays on the work of Denis Villeneuve provides a comprehensive study of his filmmaking to date. Exploring Villeneuve's position as Quebec and Hollywood director in chapters ranging from his early auteur films to major blockbusters, the contributors offer fascinating and insightful readings of his varied oeuvre." -Sarah Cooper, King's College London
Book Information
ISBN 9781474497381
Author Jeri English
Format Hardback
Page Count 240
Imprint Edinburgh University Press
Publisher Edinburgh University Press