Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Figures vii
4. Notes on Contributors ix
5. Introduction 1
6. Chapter 1 Denis Villeneuve, Québécois and Citizen of the World 5
7. Chapter 2 Science Fiction, National Rebirth and Messianism in Un 32 août sur terre 23
8. Chapter 3 Close-ups and Gros Plans: Denis Villeneuve the Macrophage 41
9. Chapter 4 Reproductive Futurism and the Woman Problem in the Films of Denis Villeneuve 59
10. Chapter 5 Filming Missing Bodies: ‘Bodiless-Character Films’ and the Presence of Absence in Denis Villeneuve’s Cinema 76
11. Chapter 6 Life, Risk and the Structuring Force of Exposure in Maelström 93
12. Chapter 7 The Self as Other and the Other as Self: Identity, Doubling and Misrecognition in Incendies, Enemy and Blade Runner 2049 110
13. Chapter 8 Villeneuve’s Hidden Monsters: Representations of Evil in Prisoners and Sicario 126
14. Chapter 9 Beyond Complexity: Narrative Experimentation and Genre Development in Enemy 143
15. Chapter 10 Subjectivity and Cinematic Space in Blade Runner 2049 161
16. Chapter 11 Mere Data Makes a Man: Artificial Intelligences in Blade Runner 2049 178
17. Chapter 12 Shortening the Way: Villeneuve’s Dune as Film and as Project 194
18. Filmography 209
19. Bibliography 210
20. Index 226