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Author Royer, Michelle, author.

Title The cinema of Marguerite Duras : multisensoriality and female subjectivity / Michelle Royer
Published Edinburgh, UK : Edinburgh University Press, [2019]
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Description 1 online resource (vi, 133 pages) : illustrations
Series Visionaries : thinking through female filmmakers
Visionaries (Edinburgh University Press)
Contents Film theory, multisensoriality and the feminine -- Inscribing authorship -- Desynchronisation, subversion and the senses -- Multisensorial visuality -- Soundscape: sonic aesthetics and the feminine
1. Film theory, multisensoriality and the feminine -- 2. Inscribing authorship -- Biographical information -- Coming to cinema -- Duras' feminist engagement -- Nathalie Granger and feminism -- Context of production, direction and reception -- Performing authorship and authorial self-inscription -- 3. Desynchronisation, subversion and the senses -- Desynchronisation, poetic effect, memory and embodiment -- Representing the unrepresentability of pain through audio-visual disjunction -- Actors, movements and vestibular perception -- Desynchronisation and synaesthesia -- 4. Multisensorial visuality -- Intercultural memories -- Hapticity -- Olfaction -- Water, light and thermoception -- Camera movement and the vestibular sense -- Mirrors and disorientation -- The colour blue and sensorial memories -- Tableaux vivants, ̀nudes' and black screens -- 5. Soundscape: sonic aesthetics and the feminine -- The voice -- The vice consul's scream -- Silence -- Writing and the voice -- Music -- Sound effects
Summary The writer Marguerite Duras was a key figure in post-war French cinema, pioneering innovations such as the disjunction of film and image, and the primacy given to voices, silence and music. Her multisensorial approach opened up new spaces for the female experience to be expressed. Although she worked with some of the best French visual technicians and musicians of her time, critiques have often neglected the visual and sonic aesthetics of her films, and their effects on spectators. Drawing on theories of embodiment and spectatorship, this book analyses the tactility and multisensoriality of Duras' films, and how they relate to her female-centred perspective
Analysis Media & Communications
Cinema
Female
Marguerite Duras
Multisensoriality
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Includes filmography
Notes This work is licensed under a Creative Commons license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/legalcode
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Subject Duras, Marguerite -- Criticism and interpretation
SUBJECT Duras, Marguerite fast
Subject Motion pictures -- France -- History
Women motion picture producers and directors -- France
PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- Direction & Production.
Motion pictures
Women motion picture producers and directors
France
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
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