The Late Films of Claude Chabrol: Genre, Visual Expressionism and Narrational Ambiguity

by Jacob Leigh

Book Overview

A member of the French New Wave group of filmmakers who first came to prominence at the end of the 1950s, Claude Chabrol has received the least amount of critical and scholarly attention, although he was the more prolific and commercially successful of them all. Jacob Leigh fills this lacuna by focusing on the last nine feature films of Chabrol's career, exploring his imagery, camerawork, use of sound and music, and performances, revealing the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501351974
• ISBN13: 9781501351976
• Release Date: April 2019
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"