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Her doctoral work delves into striking images of monstrous metamorphosis in contemporary French genre cinema, examining how bodily transformation becomes a powerful language for exploring identity, desire, and resistance.<br><br>Drawing from the humanities and social sciences, particularly gender studies and film iconology, Alice Guillot- Lefeuvre investigates how today\u2019s filmmakers reshape the human body on screen, turning mutation and excess into bold tools for rethinking norms around gender, sexuality, and embodiment.<br>In this talk, Guillot-Lefeuvrre will guide audiences through the provocative and unsettling worlds of directors such as Julia Ducournau (<em><em>Raw<\/em><\/em>,\u00a0<em><em>Titane<\/em><\/em>) and Coralie Fargeat (<em><em>The Substance<\/em><\/em>), offering accessible insights into their aesthetics, themes, and cultural impact. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":7971809,"menu_order":0,"template":"","app_discipline":[219],"app_city_tax":[225],"app_event_type":[477],"class_list":["post-7971340","app_event","type-app_event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","app_discipline-cinema","app_city_tax-sf","app_event_type-conference"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Human Transformation in Contemporary French Cinema with Alice Guillot-Lefeuvre - Villa Albertine<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/va\/events\/human-transformation-in-contemporary-french-cinema-with-alice-guillot-lefeuvre\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Human Transformation in Contemporary French Cinema with Alice Guillot-Lefeuvre - Villa Albertine\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Join Villa Albertine San Francisco for a compelling and visually rich conversation with Alice Guillot-Lefeuvre, PhD candidate in Film and Audiovisual Studies at Universit\u00e9 Lumi\u00e8re Lyon 2, Universit\u00e9 Lumi\u00e8re Lyon 2, whose research sits at the intersection of cinema, the body, and queer theory. 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