Diane Kurys

by Carrie Tarr; Diana Holmes; Robert Ingram

• ISBN13: 9780719050947
• ISBN10: 0719050944
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-07-01
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Carrie Tarr's analysis of the cinema of Diane Kurys is the first full-length study of this director, whose delightfully unsentimental reconstructions of the lives of girls and women in post-war France have established her as a distinctive presence in contemporary French film-making. Tarr traces Kurys' trajectory from actress to author, director and producer of her own films and situates her work within debates on women's film-making and female authorship. The book includes detailed readings of each of Kurys' films to date, from the evocation of growing up in the 1960s in Diabolo Menthe to the dilemmas facing contemporary women artists in A la Folie. The conclusion defines Kurys' "authorial signature" and discusses the extent to which she has been able to create a space for female subjectivity within the constraints of contemporary French culture.

Author Biography

Carrie Tarr is Senior Research Fellow at Thames Valley University, London

Table of Contents

List of Plates	vi
Series Editors' Foreword	viii
Acknowledgements	x
Introduction	1	(15)
Diabolo menthe	16	(23)
Cocktail Molotov	39	(16)
Coup de foudre	55	(17)
Un homme amoureux	72	(20)
La Baule Les Pins	92	(16)
Apres I'amour	108	(17)
A la folie	125	(25)
Conclusion: Kurys' authorial signature	140	(10)
Filmography	150	(5)
Select Bibliography	155	(4)
Index	159