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Critically examines the work of Qu b cois filmmakers Denis Villeneuve
Engages with all of Villeneuve's feature films (some individually and some comparatively), including those that have up until now received little critical attention
Proposes original analyses of all the films from multiple critical and theoretical approaches (thematic, sociocultural, formal, ontological, feminist, allegorical, narrative, spectatorial, intertextual) which both contribute to current scholarship and serve as a resource for undergraduate and graduate students
Offers a clear overview of Villeneuve's contributions to contemporary cinema, both in a Qu b cois context and with regards to his Hollywood films
The nimble, creative spirit of Qu b cois 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 ao t sur terre (1998), Maelstr m (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.
Contents
Introduction: Jeri English and Marie Pascal
1. Denis Villeneuve, Québécois and Citizen of the World - Amy J. Ransom
2. Science Fiction, National Rebirth, and Messianism in Un 32 août sur terre - Kester Dyer
3. Close-ups and Gros plans: Denis Villeneuve the Macrophage - Marie Pascal
4. Reproductive Futurism and the Woman Problem in the Films of Denis Villeneuve - Brenda Longfellow
5. Filming Missing Bodies: 'Bodiless-Character Films' and the Presence of Absence in Denis Villeneuve's Cinema - Emily Sanders
6. Life, Risk, and the Structuring Force of Exposure in Maelström - Terrance McDonald
7. The Self as Other and the Other as Self: Identity, Doubling and Misrecognition in Incendies, Enemy and Blade Runner 2049 - Jeri English
8. Villeneuve's Hidden Monsters: Representations of Evil in Prisoners and Sicario - Alex Frohlick
9. Beyond Complexity: Narrative Experimentation and Genre Development in Enemy - Melanie Kreitler
10. Subjectivity and Cinematic Space in Blade Runner 2049 - Christophe Gelly and David Roche
11. Mere Data Makes a Man: Artificial Intelligences in Blade Runner 2049 - Kingsley Marshall
12. Shortening the Way: Villeneuve's Dune as Film and as Project - Trip McCrossin