The Cinema of Catherine Breillat, (Contemporary Cinema, 7)

In The Cinema of Catherine Breillat, Belot offers a detailed analysis of Breillat's films by looking at the representation of women as sexual beings. These women's search of identity echoes that of Breillat's in establishing a personal or intimate cinema. Introduction : Catherine Breillat's Scènes Intimes : The Personal As The Intimate ; The Intimate: 'x' For Censorship ; The Manuscript's Structure And Synopsis -- 'le Cinéma De Catherine Breillat' : An Intertextual And Transgressive Cinema: Sex Is Comedy And Une Vieille Maîtresse ; The Script Of 'intimate Scenes' In Sex Is Comedy ; Breillat's Original Film Adaptation : Une Vieille Maitresse -- Viewing (dis)pleasure : The 'cinematic Spectator' In Tapage Nocturne -- The Teen Years In Une Vraie Jeune Fille, 36 Fillette, And A Ma Soeur! : The Repressive French Society ; Revisiting The Lolita Syndrome ; Real 'becomings'/young Girls -- A Male Adolescent Sexual Journey : 'the Male Crisis'? In Brève Traversée -- Adult Female Sexual Desire : The Genre Film: Crime Drama In Sale Comme Un Ange And Parfait Amour! ; Empowerment In Masochism: Romance And Anatomie De L'enfer -- Conclusion : Adaptation Of Fairy Tales: Reading And Dreaming ; Fairy Tales And Gender Expectations ; Intimacy In Catherine Breillat's Cinema. By Sophie Belot. Includes Bibliographical References, Filmography, And Index. In 'The Cinema of Catherine Breillat', Bélot offers a detailed analysis of Breillat's past and recent films. Breillat is one of the most internationally renowned French women filmmakers whose notoriety is built on her explicit representation of women's sexuality. Most of her films rely on a female protagonist's personal and intimate search of her self, characterised by her sexual journey. Facing censorship and controversy, Breillat's films do not easily fit classification and place the viewer into an uncomfortable position. This study looks at Breillat as an independent cinema auteur entertaining a close relation with her films by exploring and positing women, from adolescence to adulthood, as sexual beings reflecting her films' identity emanating from Breillat's personal or intimate scenes