Lecturer Florence Jacobowitz, who has worked within the Department of Communications & Media, as well as the Department of Humanities, has published a new book entitled Isabelle Huppert, Modernist Performance that looks at the work of French actress Isabelle Huppert. She argues that the actress’s oeuvre constitutes one of the most significant feminist bodies of work to have emerged in the wake of the second wave of the women’s movement, a period of intense social change. The book demonstrates this through performing close readings of the actress’s performances.
Cynthia Baron, author of Modern Acting: The Lost Chapter of American Film and Theatre, praised the book saying, “Florence Jacobowitz effectively brings together insights gleaned from a wide range of scholarly, journalistic, and filmic sources. Her writing style is exquisite, making the book accessible to a wide audience and a pleasure to read for academics. The descriptions of ideas, films, performance details, and more are clear and engaging; the observations about the films also reveal a significant depth of insight and compassion.”
Florence Jacobowitz is a scholar, film critic, and a founding editor and contributor to CineAction magazine. She has taught film studies at York University in Toronto, Canada; coedited a collection of essays titled Image and Remembrance: Representation and the Holocaust; and has contributed to several edited volumes on Hitchcock, feminist film criticism, and genre studies, including film noir, melodrama and the Western.
