Leos Carax
A study of the 'enfant terrible' of French cinema. The ingredients and influences of Carax's films (including 'Les Amants du Pont Neuf' and 'Pola X') are examined: Paris, pop music, flanerie, amour fou, mannerist and neo-baroque aesthetics, 'Nouvelle Vague' and contemporary naturalist cinema
Print Book, English, 2003
Manchester University Press : Distributed exclusively in the U.S.A. by Palgrave, Manchester, New York, 2003
Criticism, interpretation, etc
viii, 188 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
9780719063145, 9780719063152, 0719063140, 0719063159
52970156
List of platesSeries editors' forewordAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Genesis of Carax's system1. A pierrot apart; 'Boy Meets Girl' (1984), 'Mauvais Sang' (1986) and the nouvelle vague inheritance2. 'Feux d'artifice:'Les Amants du Pont-Neuf'' (1991) and the spectacle of vagrancy3. Carax's ambiguities: 'Pola X' (1999), naturalism, MelvilleFilmographyBibliographyInde -- .