Performative Opacity in the Work of Isabelle Huppert

Iggy Cortez, Ian Fleishman

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Edinburgh University Press
10 June 2025

Acting techniques; Films, movies & cinema; Film theory & criticism; Reference works

Performative Opacity in the Work of Isabelle Huppert argues that the career of this singular French actor-constituting a corpus of well over a hundred films-offers a unique testing ground for current approaches in film studies and affect studies.

Attention to Huppert's performances can reframe recent discussions on the social and cultural dimensions of emotion and normativity through a compelling paradox: her roles tend to express grandiose and overwhelming conditions central to debates in the humanities-negativity, dispossession, trauma-but through elusive and at times resistant or diminutive forms of expression: what J. Hoberman once called her ""genius to distinguish 47 varieties of blankness."" Including diverse contributions from an international line-up of established scholars, this volume examines Huppert's flat affect and other registers with an eye to their significance for cinema and media studies, queer and gender studies, star studies and world cinema.

Edited by: Iggy Cortez, Ian Fleishman
Imprint: Edinburgh University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
ISBN: 9781474479844
ISBN 10: 1474479847
Pages: 168
Publication Date: 10 June 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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.

Reviews for Performative Opacity in the Work of Isabelle Huppert

Framed by an ambitious, imaginative introduction, this volume provides a welcome contribution for readers interested in Isabelle Huppert's astonishing career and powerful star image. It has much to teach a wider readership interested in affect, embodied performance, cinematic institutions, and screen cultures.--Nick Salvato, Cornell University 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