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The cinema of Marguerite Duras : multisensoriality and female subjectivity /

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 worke...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Royer, Michelle (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Edinburgh, UK : Edinburgh University Press, [2019]
Colección:Visionaries (Edinburgh University Press)
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.