comedy
Is Sex Comedy or Tragedy? Directing Desire and Female Auteurship in the Cinema of
Catherine Breillat
Author(s): Katherine Ince
Source: The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Vol. 64, No. 1, Special Issue: Thinking through Cinema: Film as Philosophy (Winter, 2006), pp. 157-164
Published by: Wiley on behalf of The American Society for Aesthetics
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KATHERINEINCE
Is Sex Comedy or Tragedy?Directing Desire and
Female Auteurshipin the Cinemaof CatherineBreillat
Over the last few years, the films of Catherine
Breillat have run the gauntlet of critical reaction, from condemnation as pornography dressed up as art cinema, to acclaim for the audacityrequiredand displayed by her uncompromising depictions of sex acts and female sexuality. Breillat has become a well-known cindaste and novelist (some of her films are translationsof her own novels to the screen), but has been less credited as a theorist, despite the philosophical characterof interviews such as "The Absolute Opacity of Intimacy" and texts such as the preface to the screenplay of
Romance
Catherine Breillat
Author(s): Katherine Ince
Source: The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Vol. 64, No. 1, Special Issue: Thinking through Cinema: Film as Philosophy (Winter, 2006), pp. 157-164
Published by: Wiley on behalf of The American Society for Aesthetics
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3700500 .
Accessed: 01/11/2013 13:03
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KATHERINEINCE
Is Sex Comedy or Tragedy?Directing Desire and
Female Auteurshipin the Cinemaof CatherineBreillat
Over the last few years, the films of Catherine
Breillat have run the gauntlet of critical reaction, from condemnation as pornography dressed up as art cinema, to acclaim for the audacityrequiredand displayed by her uncompromising depictions of sex acts and female sexuality. Breillat has become a well-known cindaste and novelist (some of her films are translationsof her own novels to the screen), but has been less credited as a theorist, despite the philosophical characterof interviews such as "The Absolute Opacity of Intimacy" and texts such as the preface to the screenplay of
Romance