Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Introduction : Catherine Breillat's 'Scenes-in-Time'  The Personal as the Intimate The Intimate: 'X' for Censorship The Manuscript's Structure and Synopsis 1 'Le Cinema de Catherine Breillat'  An Intertextual and Transgressive Cinema: Sex is Comedy and Une Vieille Maîtresse  The Script of 'Intimate Scenes' in Sex is Comedy  Breillat's Original Film Adaptation : Une Vieille Maitresse 2 Viewing (Dis)-pleasure  The 'Cinematic Spectator' in Tapage Nocturne 3 The Teen Years in Une vraie jeune fille, 36 fillette, and A ma soeur!  The Repressive French Society Revisiting the Lolita Syndrome Real 'Becomings'/Young Girls 4 A Male Adolescent Sexual Journey  'The Male Crisis'? in Brève traversée 5 Adult Female Sexual Desire  The Genre Film: Crime Drama in Sale comme un ange and Parfait Amour!  Empowerment in Masochism: Romance and Anatomie de l'enfer Conclusion  Adaptation of Fairy Tales: Reading and Dreaming Fairy Tales and Gender Expectations Intimacy in Catherine Breillat's Cinema Bibliography Filmography ukryj opis