Luc Besson

Autorentext

Susan Hayward is Professor of French at the University of Exeter

Klappentext

Widely taught on Film Studies courses and in French Cultural Studies programmesLuc Besson is a popular and respected filmmaker who has achieved international fameA welcome addition to the French Film Directors series.

Zusammenfassung
Luc Besson is considered one of the hottest international properties to emerge from the new wave of French film directors in the 1980s. This is a study of Besson's film-making career to date, placing the films within their socio-historical and political context.

Inhalt

1. Luc Besson the emerging filmmaker 2. Besson in context 3. Violence as performance 4. Constructing subjectivity in the absence of the father and the mother Afterword