Description |
1 online resource (vi, 133 pages) : illustrations |
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Visionaries : thinking through female filmmakers |
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Visionaries (Edinburgh University Press)
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Contents |
Film theory, multisensoriality and the feminine -- Inscribing authorship -- Desynchronisation, subversion and the senses -- Multisensorial visuality -- Soundscape: sonic aesthetics and the feminine |
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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 |
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Cinema |
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Female |
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Marguerite Duras |
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Multisensoriality |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
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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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Print version record |
Subject |
Duras, Marguerite -- Criticism and interpretation
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SUBJECT |
Duras, Marguerite fast |
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Motion pictures -- France -- History
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Women motion picture producers and directors -- France
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- Direction & Production.
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Motion pictures
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Women motion picture producers and directors
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France
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Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9781474440547 |
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1474440541 |
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9781474427869 |
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1474427863 |
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9781474427876 |
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1474427871 |
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