Space and being in contemporary French cinema

Preface: Making space
1. Space, cinema, being
2. Topographies of being: space, sensation, and spectatorship in the films of Bruno Dumont
3. Requiem for a city: the symbolics of space in the cinema of Robert Guédiguian
4. Heading nowhere: framing space and social exclusion in the films of Laurent Cantet
5. Re-siting the Republic: Abdellatif Kechiche and the politics of reappropriation and renewal
6. Beyond the Other: grafting space and human relations in the trans-cinema of Claire Denis
7. In lieu of a conclusion
Bibliography
Select filmography
Index