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Black and blue : the bruising passion of Camera lucida, la Jetée, Sans soleil, and Hiroshima mon amour / Carol Mavor.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mavor, Carol, 1957-
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Barthes, Roland. Chambre claire.
- Barthes, Roland.
- Jetée (Motion picture).
- Sans soleil (Motion picture).
- Hiroshima mon amour (Motion picture).
- Black.
- Blue.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (236 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham, N. C. : Duke University Press, 2012
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- 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 Jetée
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781283637862
- 1283637863
- 9780822395461
- 0822395460
- OCLC:
- 812508029
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