Description: Engages with the career of Isabelle Huppert, a major figure in French, European, and World Cinema.
Brief description: Iggy Cortez is Assistant Professor of Cinema and Media Arts and English at Vanderbilt University. His articles and other writing have appeared in Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, Camera Obscura, and Film Quarterly, among other venues, on topics ranging from world cinema, digital aesthetics, queer sociality, and the relationship between racialization and technology. He is currently working on a manuscript on night-time in world cinema.
Review Quotes: This transporting collection seizes the key paradox of Isabelle Huppert's performance style--so frank, yet so enigmatic--as the launchpad for a series of inspired, surprising, persuasive analyses of her work. These essays also furnish fresh, rewarding lenses on affect and opacity, whiteness and nation, comedy and irony, motherhood and melodrama.--Nick Davis, Northwestern University