Mathieu Kassovitz / Edition 1

by Will Higbee, Diana Holmes, Robert Ingram

Overview

Mathieu Kassovitz is arguably the most important filmmaker to have emerged from French cinema in the past two decades. As a director, his work often engages with highly controversial socio-political issues whilst still managing to attract and connect with a popular audience – and, above all, with a youth audience.
He is also one of the few contemporary French filmmakers who is capable of productively engaging with Hollywood, in terms of cinematic style, narrative and genre, yet still retaining his own identity as a French filmmaker. In addition to his directorial successes, Kassovitz has also achieved considerable critical and commercial success in France as a screen actor.
His films – whether directed by or acted in, or both – show an astonishing variety, from his early Métisse (1993), his break-through, La Haine (1995) through to Jeunet's Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain (2000), Astérix et Obélix: Mission Cléopatre (2002) and Gothika (2003).
Will Higbee's study is the first to explore of one of the most fascinating characters in French cinema.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780719071478
Publisher:	Manchester University Press
Publication date:	02/28/2007
Series:	French Film Directors Series
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	232
Product dimensions:	5.08(w) x 7.80(h) x 0.49(d)

About the Author

Will Higbee teaches in the School of Modern Languages at the University of Exeter

Table of Contents

List of plates
Series Editors’ foreword
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. The Popular polemicist
2. Social struggles in the popular sphere
3. Postmodern social fables
4. Interfacing with Hollywood
5. Kassovitz: the actor/auteur
Conclusion
Filmography
Select bibliography