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    Nikita: French Film Guide (French Film Guides) (Paperback) By (author) Susan Hayward

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    Short Description for Nikita "Nikita" (1990) is the story of a nineteen-year old junkie, Nikita (Anne Parillaud) who is given a second chance in life through being trained to be - and becoming - a skilled assassin for the State. This work examines its reception as a popular film by audiences and critics, and looks at "The Assassin", the Hollywood remake of "Nikita".
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    Title
    Nikita
    Subtitle
    French Film Guide
    Authors and contributors
    By (author) Susan Hayward
    Physical properties
    Format: Paperback
    Number of pages: 144
    Width: 134 mm
    Height: 216 mm
    Thickness: 13 mm
    Weight: 181 g
    Audience
    College/higher education
    General/trade
    Language
    English
    ISBN
    ISBN 13: 9781845114473
    ISBN 10: 1845114477
    Classifications
    Dewey: 791.4372
    Nielsen BookScan Product Class: T1.6
    Dewey: 791.4301
    BISAC category code: PER004030
    BISAC category code: PER004000
    LC classification: PN
    Illustrations note
    Illustrations
    Publisher
    I.B.Tauris & Co Ltd
    Imprint name
    I.B.Tauris
    Publication date
    15 March 2010
    Publication City/Country
    London/GB
    Main description
    Nikita (1990) is the story of a nineteen-year old junkie, Nikita (Anne Parillaud) who is given a second chance in life through being trained to be - and becoming - a skilled assassin for the State. Nikita is a cult classic, directed by Luc Besson (with Thierry Arbogast as director of photography) in his hallmark powerful style. The film was an international hit, which spawned a TV series and a Hollywood remake. Susan Hayward develops here a fresh and provocative way of understanding Nikita's plot structure as a neo-baroque symphony. She goes in depth into key sequences of the film, examines its reception as a popular film by audiences and critics, and looks at The Assassin, the Hollywood remake of Nikita.This is a wonderfully exciting book on an underrated film. It also shows that the woman placed at the center of a film noir can, as Susan Hayward points out, "for once win - or at least 'get away with it.'"
    Biographical note
    Susan Hayward is Professor of Cinema Studies at the University of Exeter. Her many publications in French Cinema include 'French Film: Texts and Contexts'; 'French National Cinema'; 'Luc Besson: Filmmaker and Bard'; 'Simone Signoret: The Star as Cultural Sign', and 'Les Diaboliques: French Film Guide' (I.B.Tauris, 2005). She is also the author of 'Cinema Studies: The Key Concepts' (currently in its third edition).
    Review quote
    "Ginette Vincendeau has assembled an elite corps of film scholars to address a marvellous array of modern and classic French films with the close-up scrutiny they deserve." - Dudley Andrew"
    Table of contents
    Contents; Synopsis; Introduction; Chapter One: Production Contexts; Chapter Two: 'Nikita' a neo-baroque symphony; Chapter Three: Sequence analysis; Chapter Four: Reception; Chapter Five: The Remake of 'Nikita'; Conclusion; Credits; Filmography; Select Bibliography