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Publication date: 13 March 2019

Navigating the Mind/body Divide: The Female Cannibal in French Films Grave (Raw, 2016), Dans ma peau (In My Skin, 2002) and Trouble Every Day (2001)

Kath Dooley

Grave (English title: Raw), the 2016 feature film debut from French writer/director Julia Ducournau, is a body horror that explores cannibalism in a contemporary setting…

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Grave (English title: Raw), the 2016 feature film debut from French writer/director Julia Ducournau, is a body horror that explores cannibalism in a contemporary setting. A vegetarian student, Justine, develops cannibalistic desires after she is forced to eat rabbit kidneys in a hazing ritual at a veterinarian school.

This film portrays the female cannibal as having lost control of her bodily impulses. Justine displays a loss of cognition that results in involuntary actions when confronted with raw flesh. One can observe parallels in this portrayal and that featured in earlier films Dans ma peau (In my Skin, 2002, dir. Marina de Van) and Trouble Every Day (2001, dir. Claire Denis). These two films are identified with the early twenty-first-century French ‘cinema of the body’ trend, which involves disturbing and horrific portrayals of alienated protagonists, sexual debasement and transgressive urges.

In my exploration of the mind/body divide featured in Grave, I’ll argue that the film moves away from portrayals of the cannibal in the two earlier films, as we now observe a female protagonist who is actively engaged in meaningful relationships with others. As such, Justine seeks connection rather than disconnection from those around her, with varying levels of success.

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Gender and Contemporary Horror in Film
Type: Book
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-78769-897-020191005
ISBN: 978-1-78769-898-7

Keywords

  • French cinema
  • the body
  • cannibalism
  • body horror
  • agency
  • desire

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Book part
Publication date: 22 December 2008

Projecting the judge: A case study in the cultural lives of the judiciary

Leslie J. Moran

Various law and film scholars have noted that the judge occupies the place of a marginal figure in ‘legal cinema’ and in related scholarship. In this chapter I want to…

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Various law and film scholars have noted that the judge occupies the place of a marginal figure in ‘legal cinema’ and in related scholarship. In this chapter I want to engage with the debate about the representation of the judge in film by way of an examination of a South African documentary, ‘Two Moms: A family portrait’ (2004). In the first instance this ‘family portrait’ appears to be neither an obvious candidate for inclusion in the canon of ‘legal cinema’ nor a film with a plotline dominated by a judge. But from this rather unpromising start this chapter explores how a film about an ordinary family made up of extraordinary people is an extraordinary film about law in general and about the figure of the judge in particular.

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Studies in Law, Politics and Society
Type: Book
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/S1059-4337(2009)0000046004
ISBN: 978-1-84855-378-1

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Publication date: 18 January 2011

The information‐related behaviour of emerging artists and designers: Inspiration and guidance for new practitioners

Helen Mason and Lyn Robinson

This paper aims to report an empirical study of the information‐related behaviour of emerging artists and designers. It also aims to add to understanding of the…

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Purpose

This paper aims to report an empirical study of the information‐related behaviour of emerging artists and designers. It also aims to add to understanding of the information behaviour of the group both as practising artists (a little understood category of information users), and also as “new practitioners”.

Design/methodology/approach

A literature analysis is used to guide creation of an online questionnaire, eliciting both qualitative and quantitative data. A total of 78 practising artists participated, all having graduated in the seven years prior to the survey.

Findings

The group have generally the same information practices as more established artists. They place reliance on internet and social networks, while also using traditional printed tools and libraries. Browsing is important, but not a predominant means of accessing information. Inspiration is found from a very diverse and idiosyncratic set of sources, often by serendipitous means. Their status as emergent practitioners means that their information behaviour is governed by cost factors, and by needs for career advice and interaction with peers.

Research limitations/implications

The study group are a convenience sample, all having access to the internet. No observation or interviews were carried out.

Practical implications

The results will provide guidance to academic and public librarians serving artist users, and to those providing career advice to them. It will also be valuable to those providing services to “new practitioners” in any field.

Originality/value

This is one of a very few papers reporting empirical studies of the information behaviour of artists, and has the largest sample size of any such study. It is one of a very few papers considering the information needs and behaviour of new practitioners.

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Journal of Documentation, vol. 67 no. 1
Type: Research Article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/00220411111105498
ISSN: 0022-0418

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  • Arts
  • Visual media
  • Information retrieval
  • Individual behaviour
  • Internet
  • Social networks

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Publication date: 13 March 2019

‘It’s So Easy to Create a Victim’: Subverting Gender Stereotypes in the New French Extremity

Maddi McGillvray

The horror genre is and always has been populated by women, who can be seen to be at once both objectified and empowered. Building off the preexisting gender hierarchies…

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The horror genre is and always has been populated by women, who can be seen to be at once both objectified and empowered. Building off the preexisting gender hierarchies and dynamics embedded in the history of horror cinema, this chapter looks at a number of New French Extremity films that assault audiences with unrelenting scenes of violence, torture and self-mutilation, which are performed almost exclusively upon or by women. Although the films of the New French Extremity have been dismissed as exploitative in their representations of wounded and suffering female bodies, their narratives also offer internal criticisms of the misogynistic portals of victimhood that are prevalent in the genre. Through a close analysis of the films Inside (Bustillo & Maury, 2007) (French title: À L’intérieur) and Martyrs (Laugier, 2008), this chapter will examine how both films deviate from the male monster/female victim dichotomy. Although the women of these films may start off vulnerable, they take charge of their situations, while also compacting the nature of feminine identity.

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Gender and Contemporary Horror in Film
Type: Book
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-78769-897-020191002
ISBN: 978-1-78769-898-7

Keywords

  • New French extremity
  • French cinema
  • female victimhood
  • female protagonists
  • female agency
  • women in horror

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Article
Publication date: 1 December 2001

Trends and issues of Italian cinema: a mini‐history and bibliography

Martha Zarate

Looks at the first 100 years of Italian cinema examining its role in Italy’s recent history. Provides a bibliography of major film directors, Italian cinema sources…

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Looks at the first 100 years of Italian cinema examining its role in Italy’s recent history. Provides a bibliography of major film directors, Italian cinema sources, reference works, histories, themes, theory and criticism and articles in journals.

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Collection Building, vol. 20 no. 4
Type: Research Article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/01604950110408245
ISSN: 0160-4953

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  • Bibliographies
  • Cinema
  • Collection management

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Article
Publication date: 13 June 2008

Historical Dictionary of French Cinema

Eric Jukes

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Reference Reviews, vol. 22 no. 5
Type: Research Article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/09504120810885388
ISSN: 0950-4125

Keywords

  • Cinema
  • Dictionaries
  • France
  • History

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Article
Publication date: 21 March 2016

A Companion to Contemporary French Cinema

Michel Petheram

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Reference Reviews, vol. 30 no. 3
Type: Research Article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/RR-12-2015-0287
ISSN: 0950-4125

Keywords

  • Cinema
  • France

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Article
Publication date: 1 January 1989

A Global Look at Consumer Involvement and Use of Products

Judith L. Zaichkowsky and James H. Sood

Respondents from fifteen countries reported their level of use andinvolvement with eight products and services: the countries wereArgentina, Austria, Australia, Barbados…

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Respondents from fifteen countries reported their level of use and involvement with eight products and services: the countries were Argentina, Austria, Australia, Barbados, Canada, Chile, China, Columbia, England, Finland, France, Mexico, Sweden, the United States and Yugoslavia; the products and services were air travel, beer, blue jeans, eating at a restaurant, hair shampoo, going to the cinema, soft drinks and stereo sets. The results indicated that country accounted for eight to 45 per cent of the variation in product and service usage. Among regular product users, country accounts for one to 20 per cent of the variation in involvement levels across products and services.

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International Marketing Review, vol. 6 no. 1
Type: Research Article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/EUM0000000001500
ISSN: 0265-1335

Keywords

  • Consumer behaviour
  • Involvement
  • International marketing

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Article
Publication date: 19 June 2020

The persistence of accountant beancounter images in popular culture

Mark Christensen and Sébastien Rocher

In analysing the beancounter image's trajectory, from its birth to its persistence, in European French language comics between 1945 and 2016, this paper explores why…

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In analysing the beancounter image's trajectory, from its birth to its persistence, in European French language comics between 1945 and 2016, this paper explores why artists continue beancounter image usage in popular culture.

Design/methodology/approach

Beancounter characters have been studied in an application of Iconology (Panofsky, 1955) in order to unravel how individuals make sense of cultural artefacts and how, in turn, the visuals shape cultural belief systems at a given time.

Findings

This study reveals that comics artists usage of the beancounter image results from their critical reactions to management and capitalism whilst at other times the usage is an indication of authenticity. Motivation for the usage is not constant over time nor is the impact of the beancounter image. Both appear dependant of the level of artistic freedom experienced by the artist.

Research limitations/implications

Based on a single media (comics) with a unique characters (European French language) this study deepens exploration of the ways in which accounting becomes entwined with the everyday and implies that further research is needed.

Originality/value

Extends the work of Smith and Jacobs (2011) and Jacobs and Evans (2012) by focusing on a genre of popular culture over a long period, and by adopting a critical viewpoint. Also expands the possible applications of Panofsky's (1955) Iconology in accounting studies.

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Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal, vol. 33 no. 6
Type: Research Article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/AAAJ-09-2019-4163
ISSN: 0951-3574

Keywords

  • Popular culture
  • Beancounter
  • “Artist critique”
  • Comics
  • Iconology

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Publication date: 9 December 2009

From Paratroopers

Shulamit Almog

The chapter contends that although Israeli reality is replete with legal issues, very few films deal directly with the law or with a legal process as a central theme…

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The chapter contends that although Israeli reality is replete with legal issues, very few films deal directly with the law or with a legal process as a central theme. Contemporary Israeli films are not very different from the early Israeli films in their embracement of a national heroic narrative, which typically leaves very little space for legal issues. The chapter demonstrates the absence of law from Israeli cinema by looking closely at war films, which are probably the most popular and influential Israeli films. War films reflect and in the same time participate in the construction of the Israeli collective consciousness, wherein the army experience is central. Tracing the way in which law is presented (or lacks representation) in them may shed light from a new angle on the role of law in shaping social and political norms in Israel.

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Studies in Law, Politics and Society
Type: Book
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/S1059-4337(2009)0000050005
ISBN: 978-1-84950-696-0

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