Ebook: The films of Claire Denis: intimacy on the border

"The films of Claire Denis, one of the most challenging and respected of contemporary filmmakers, probe the psyche of global citizenship, tracing the borderlines of family, desire, nationality and power. With subtlety, depth and at times minimalism and abstraction, her films - including "Chocolat", "Beau travail" and "White Material"--Explore connections between national experience and individual circumstance, visualizing the complications of such dualities. Following a Foreword by Wim Wenders, with whom Denis worked prior to making her own movies, international contributors explore the themes she addresses in her films, such as kinship and landscape, Neo-Colonialism and New French Extremity. Original interviews with an editor, actor and two composers most familiar with the working style of Denis, and with Denis herself, also reveal fresh facets of this intrepid filmmaker."--publisher's website,;Part I Interviews. 'To let the image sing' : conversations with Dickson Hinchcliffe and Stuart Staples / Martine Beugnet -- Interview with Nelly Quettier / Kirsten Johnson -- Interview with Alex Descas / Jean-Luc Nancy -- Part II Relations. La famille Denis / Catherine Wheatley -- Reinventing community, or non-relational relations in Claire Denis's I can't sleep / San Ishii-Gonzalez -- Beyond the Other : grafting relations in the films of Claire Denis / James S. Williams -- Part III Global citizenship. Beyond Post-colonialism? from Chocolat to White material / Cornelia Ruhe -- Trouble every day : the Neo-colonialists bite back / Florence Martin -- Foreignness and employment : a study of the role of work in the films of Claire Denis / Rafael Ruiz Pleguezuelos -- The intruder according to Claire Denis / Jean-Luc Nancy -- Part IV Within film. Delivering : Claire Denis's opening sequences / Noëlle Rouxel-Cubberly -- Rhythms of relationality : Denis and dance / Laura McMahon -- That interrupting feeling : interstitial disjunctions in Claire Denis's L'intrus / Firoza Elavia -- Points of flight, lines of fracture : Claire Denis's uncanny landscape / Henrik Gustafsson -- Arthouse/grindhouse : Claire Denis and the 'New French Extremity' / Adam Nayman and Andrew Tracy.