Black and Blue : The Bruising Passion of Camera Lucida, La Jete, Sans soleil, and Hiroshima mon amour /

Postwar French works that register disturbing truths about loss and regret, and violence and history, through aesthetic refinement anchor this exquisite, image-filled rumination on efforts to capture fleeting moments and comprehend the incomprehensible.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mavor, Carol, 1957-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 2012.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Barthes, Roland. > Chambre claire.
Jetee (Motion picture)
Hiroshima mon amour (Motion picture)
Chambre claire (Barthes, Roland)
Sans soleil (Motion picture)
Art and Design.
Blue.
Black.
PHOTOGRAPHY > Criticism.
ART > Reference.
ART > Performance.
African American.
Bleu.
Noir.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : first things : two black and blue thoughts
  • Author's note I. a sewing needle inside a plastic and rubber suction cup sitting on a watch spring, or, an object for seeing nothing
  • Elegy of milk, in black and blue : the bruising of La Chambre claire
  • "A" is for Alice, for amnesia, for anamnesis: a fairy tale (almost blue) called La Jetâee
  • Happiness with a long piece of black leader : Chris Marker's sans soleil
  • Author's note II. She wrote me
  • "Summer was inside the marble": Alain Resnais and Magurite Duras's Hiroshima mon amour.

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