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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Main Author: Royer, Michelle
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Edinburgh, UK Edinburgh University Press 2019, [2019]©2019
Series:Visionaries : thinking through female filmmakers
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Collection: JSTOR Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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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
Physical Description:vi, 133 pages illustrations
ISBN:9781474440547
1474440541