Buch, Englisch, 300 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 635 g
The Case of Francophone Europe
Buch, Englisch, 300 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 635 g
ISBN: 978-94-6372-858-4
Verlag: Amsterdam University Press
From a semio-pragmatic perspective and drawing on an interdisciplinary and intermedial approach, this book analyses how the audiovisual thinking process manifests itself in essay films. It explores how issues of subjectivity and identity, whether individual, social, political or cultural, prompt thought through the medium of cinema.
The volume discusses the European Francophone essay film from its first appearance in cinematic modernity to the present. The study is developed in three stages. The first analyses the intermedial forms that are used: the letter, the (self-)portrait, the dialogue, the diptych, etc. The second examines the audiovisual materials that are mobilised. The third addresses the audiovisual procedures that are generated. In its analysis of works by Marker, Godard, Akerman, Varda and others, this book offers a new and detailed understanding of the production, evolution and achievements of the essay film in Francophone Europe.
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Acknowledgements
Introduction. Audiovisual Thinking and Enunciative Devices
Chapter 1. The Letter: Lettre de Sibérie: Reality, imagination, and the subjectivity of knowledge
Chapter 2. The (Self-)Portrait
Chapter 3. The Dialogue
Chapter 4. The Diptych
Chapter 5. Hybridisations
Chapter 6. Saturation
Chapter 7. Autofiction
Chapter 8. The Spectator’s Position
Conclusion. Identity and Critical Thinking
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