The Rules of Integration: The Institutionalist Approach to European Studies (European Politics) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 071905799X ISBN 13: 9780719057991

Publisher: Manchester University Press, 2001

Synopsis

This is the first full-length study of the films of François Ozon, director of such diverse films as 8 femmes, Swimming Pool, 5x2 and Les amants criminels. Andrew Asibong’s passionate and critical analysis focuses on the extent to which Ozon’s seemingly light touch never ceases to engage with the fundamentally weighty issue of existential transformation, a transformation that affects both his protagonists and his audiences.

A central question emerges: what is at stake, cinematically, ethically and politically, in Ozon’s alternatively utopian and cynical flirtation with the construction and deconstruction of contemporary social relations.

Revealing Ozon as a highly adept ‘fan’ of a whole range of thought, literature and cinema, Asibong places the precocious French auteur in an intellectual yet highly accessible critical framework, allowing Ozon’s importance for a thoroughly postmodern filmgoing generation to be given the attention it deserves.

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About this title

About the Author

Mark Aspinwall is Lecturer in Politics and European Studies at the University of Durham.

Gerald Schneider is Professor of Political Science at the Faculty of Public Policy and Management at the University of Konstanz, and Executive Editor of European Union Politics.

Edition details

• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 071905799X
• ISBN 13: 9780719057991
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 232