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Engages with the career of Isabelle Huppert, a major figure in French, European, and World Cinema
Offers analytic frameworks for performance aesthetics in dialogue with critical theory
Offers new readings of important films through the lens of Huppert's acting
Uses Huppert to theorise screen performance aesthetics in dialogue with debates in the humanities on negativity, affect, and gender
Performative Opacity in the Work of Isabelle Huppert argues that the career of this singular French actor constituting a corpus of well over a hundred films offers a unique testing ground for current approaches in film studies and affect studies.
Attention to Huppert's performances can reframe recent discussions on the social and cultural dimensions of emotion and normativity through a compelling paradox: her roles tend to express grandiose and overwhelming conditions central to debates in the humanities negativity, dispossession, trauma but through elusive and at times resistant or diminutive forms of expression: what J. Hoberman once called her genius to distinguish 47 varieties of blankness." Including diverse contributions from an international line-up of established scholars, this volume examines Huppert's flat affect and other registers with an eye to their significance for cinema and media studies, queer and gender studies, star studies and world cinema.
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Contents
Introduction: Performing the Inassimilable - Iggy Cortez and Ian Fleishman
1. The Unknown Huppert - Catherine Wheatley
2. Huppert in the Ozon-Machine: Melodrama and Meta-Acting in 8 Femmes - Nikolaj Lübecker
3. Alter/Ego: Isabelle Huppert as Werner Schroeter's Double - Ian Fleishman
4. Laughing in the Face of Death: The Comedic Force of Isabelle Huppert in La Cérémonie - Karen Redrobe
5. White Mothers on Colonised Land, or What Isabelle Huppert Makes Visible? - Erin Schlumpf
6. Isabelle Huppert's Caring, Carefree, Careless Abortionist in Claude Chabrol's Une Affaire de femmes - Henrietta Stanford
7. Horn | Huppert | Horn - Lutz Koepnick
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