{"product_id":"beau-travail-paperback","title":"Beau Travail - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eCorinn Columpar\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBeau Travail\u003c\/i\u003e (1998) is Claire Denis' bold, sensuous masterpiece. Loosely based on Herman Melville's \u003ci\u003eBilly Budd, Sailor \u003c\/i\u003e(1924)\u003ci\u003e, \u003c\/i\u003ethe film explores the complexities of desire, identity, and power within an all-male group of French Foreign Legionnaires stationed at a coastal outpost in the former colony of Djibouti, in East Africa. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe film cemented Denis' position as a leading auteur and visual poet. In this book, Corinn Columpar positions the film as a cinematic bid for freedom. She examines its formal innovations - particularly the use of the gaze, voice, and movement - to explain how Denis produces exhilarating possibilities narratively, affectively, and ideologically, while also situating the film within the histories of art cinema and postcolonial filmmaking.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCorinn Columpar\u003c\/b\u003e is Associate Professor of Cinema Studies in the Cinema Studies Institute at the University of Toronto, Canada. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eUnsettling Sights: The Fourth World on Film\u003c\/i\u003e (2010). She is co-editor of \u003ci\u003eThere She Goes: Feminist Filmmaking and Beyond\u003c\/i\u003e (2009) and \u003ci\u003eMothers of Invention: Film, Media, and Caregiving Labor\u003c\/i\u003e (2022). She has published widely on feminist film theory, embodiment and representation in journals including \u003ci\u003eCamera Obscura\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eQuarterly Review of Film and Video\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eWomen Studies Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 96\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.24 x 7.46 x 5.43 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 11, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53512411021619,"sku":"9781839027130","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/DH3loEyPUB9781839027130.webp?v=1781789039","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/beau-travail-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}