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dc.contributor.authorDooley, Kathleen
dc.contributor.editorHolland, Samantha
dc.contributor.editorShail, Robert
dc.contributor.editorGerrard, Steven
dc.date.accessioned2019-03-11T02:25:58Z
dc.date.available2019-03-11T02:25:58Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.identifier.isbn978-1-78769-897-0
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/74936
dc.identifier.doi10.1108/978-1-78769-897-020191005
dc.description.abstract

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.

dc.publisherEmerald
dc.subjectfrench cinema
dc.subjectthe body
dc.subjectcinema du corps
dc.titleNavigating 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)
dc.typeBook Chapter
dcterms.source.startPage53
dcterms.source.endPage66
dcterms.source.titleGender and Contemporary Horror in Film
dcterms.source.isbn978-1-78769-897-0
dcterms.source.placeBingley, West Yorkshire,
dcterms.source.chapter4
dc.date.updated2019-03-11T02:25:58Z
curtin.departmentSchool of Media, Creative Arts and Social Inquiry
curtin.accessStatusFulltext not available
curtin.facultyFaculty of Humanities
curtin.contributor.scopusauthoridDooley, Kathleen [56577652600]


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