ReFocus: The Films of Denis Villeneuve

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Edited by Jeri English, University of Toronto, Marie Pascal, King’s University College at Western University

Publisher:: Edinburgh University Press
Online publication date:: October 2023
Print publication year:: 2022
Online ISBN:: 9781474497404

Series:: ReFocus: The International Directors Series
Subjects:: Film, Film, Media, Mass Communication

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The nimble, creative spirit of Québécois screenwriter and filmmaker, Denis Villeneuve, is reflected in his varied body of work. Villeneuve explores questions of alterity and interculturality, of language and identity, of memory and forgetting, of violence and retribution, throughout his filmography: 'Un 32 août sur terre' (1998), 'Maelström' (2000), 'Polytechnique' (2009), 'Incendies' (2010), 'Enemy' (2013), 'Prisoners' (2013), 'Sicario' (2015), 'Arrival' (2016), 'Blade Runner 2049' (2017) and 'Dune: Part 1' (2021).This edited collection brings together original works of scholarship on all of Villeneuve's feature films from different theoretical approaches, in order to deepen our understanding of this important and yet relatively understudied director; read individually or as a collective whole, these studies reveal important elements of Villeneuve's filmic practice, as well as the evolutions of his oeuvre.

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-vi

List of Figures
pp vii-viii

Notes on Contributors
pp ix-xii

Introduction
pp 1-4

Chapter 1 - Denis Villeneuve, Québécois and Citizen of the World
pp 5-22

Chapter 2 - Science Fiction, National Rebirth and Messianism in Un 32 août sur terre
pp 23-40

Chapter 3 - Close-ups and Gros Plans: Denis Villeneuve the Macrophage
pp 41-58

Chapter 4 - Reproductive Futurism and the Woman Problem in the Films of Denis Villeneuve
pp 59-75

Chapter 5 - Filming Missing Bodies: ‘Bodiless-Character Films’ and the Presence of Absence in Denis Villeneuve’s Cinema
pp 76-92

Chapter 6 - Life, Risk and the Structuring Force of Exposure in Maelström
pp 93-109

Chapter 7 - The Self as Other and the Other as Self: Identity, Doubling and Misrecognition in Incendies, Enemy and Blade Runner 2049
pp 110-125

Chapter 8 - Villeneuve’s Hidden Monsters: Representations of Evil in Prisoners and Sicario
pp 126-142

Chapter 9 - Beyond Complexity: Narrative Experimentation and Genre Development in Enemy
pp 143-160

Chapter 10 - Subjectivity and Cinematic Space in Blade Runner 2049
pp 161-177

Chapter 11 - Mere Data Makes a Man: Artificial Intelligences in Blade Runner 2049
pp 178-193

Chapter 12 - Shortening the Way: Villeneuve’s Dune as Film and as Project
pp 194-208

Filmography
pp 209-209

Bibliography
pp 210-225

Index
pp 226-228

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