The cinema of Marguerite Duras : multisensoriality and female subjectivity / Michelle Royer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Royer, Michelle, author.

Series:

Visionaries.

Visionaries

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Duras, Marguerite--Criticism and interpretation.

Duras, Marguerite.

Motion pictures in literature.

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

133 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2019.

Contents:

1 Film theory, multisensoriality and the feminine p. 8

2 Inscribing authorship p. 18

Biographical information p. 18

Coming to cinema p. 23

Duras' feminist engagement p. 27

Nathalie Granger and feminism p. 30

Context of production, direction and reception p. 33

Performing authorship and authorial self-inscription p. 35

3 Desynchronisation, subversion and the senses p. 39

Desynchronisation, poetic effect, memory and embodiment p. 42

Representing the unrepresentability of pain through audio-visual disjunction p. 44

Actors, movements and vestibular perception p. 49

Desynchronisation and synaesthesia p. 52

4 Multisensorial visuality p. 55

Intercultural memories p. 56

Hapticity p. 58

Olfaction p. 66

Water, light and thermoception p. 67

Camera movement and the vestibular sense p. 70

Mirrors and disorientation p. 72

The colour blue and sensorial memories p. 73

Tableaux vivants, nudes' and black screens p. 76

5 Soundscape: sonic aesthetics and the feminine p. 83

The voice p. 86

The vice consul's scream p. 93

Silence p. 95

Writing and the voice p. 97

Sound effects p. 101.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index.

ISBN:

9781474440547

1474440541

9781474427852

1474427855

OCLC:

1108705562