Böcker av Keith Reader

An introduction to the work of Robert Bresson, a respected and acclaimed director in the history of cinema. His films are considered in chronological order, using a perspective that draws variously on spectator theory, Catholic mysticism, gender theory and Lacanian psychoanalysis.

This is a study of the 1933 killing by the Papin sisters of their mistress and her daughter. An unexampled act of violence by women against women. The book discusses the idea that the obsessive recurrence of the case makes it a prism through which to examine multiple aspects of French culture.