Portrait of resistance: The cinema of Céline Sciamma
Douban
Übersicht
Return to 18th-century Brittany for a romance for the ages with the first ever book to be written about French filmmaker Céline Sciamma, her process, and her body of work.
This book contains interviews with Sciamma, actresses Noémie Merlant and Adèle Haenel, as well as Sciamma’s creative team sound editor. On top of that, essays from EIC Alex Heeney, Executive Editor Orla Smith, Associate Editor Brett Pardy, and writers Lena Wilson, Ben Flanagan, and Angelo Muredda will delve into what makes Sciamma’s films so special. Read entire chapters on Water Lilies (2007), Tomboy (2011), and Girlhood (2014), plus several essays on Portrait, focusing on its exploration of the gaze of the two central lover
contents
Contents
FOREWORD by Orla Smith.................................................................................... 5 PART 1: AN INTRODUCTION TO CÉLINE SCIAMMA with an introduction by
Orla Smith ............................................................................................................... 9
1. Who is Céline Sciamma? by Brett Pardy....................................................... 11
2. Céline Sciamma’s 10 best scenes by Alex Heeney and Orla Smith ............ 14
PART 2: CÉLINE SCIAMMA IN CONTEXT with an introduction by Orla Smith31
3. Water Lilies’ women in the shadow of patriarchy by Ben Flanagan .......... 33
4. The nature of gender non-conformity in Tomboy by Lena Wilson............ 40
5. Céline Sciamma on Girlhood by Alex Heeney ............................................... 48
6. Choreographing intimacy and isolation in Girlhood by Orla Smith .......... 58
7. Finding temporary utopias in an unjust world by Alex Heeney................. 69
PART 3: PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE IN-DEPTH with an introduction by Alex Heeney ................................................................................................................... 84
8. Céline Sciamma on Portrait of a Lady on Fire by Alex Heeney .................... 87
9. An interview with sound editor Valérie Deloof by Alex Heeney .............. 100
10. Unlearning the male gaze by Angelo Muredda ....................................... 109
11. Adèle Haenel is an object of desire who looks back by Orla Smith ..... 118
PART 4: ACTING IN PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE with an introduction by Alex Heeney......................................................................................................... 130
12. An interview with Noémie Merlant by Orla Smith..................................132
13. An interview with Adèle Haenel by Alex Heeney ..................................... 139
BIBLIOGRAPHY ................................................................................................. 147