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OverviewThe 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Michelle RoyerPublisher: Edinburgh University Press Imprint: Edinburgh University Press ISBN: 9781474427852ISBN 10: 1474427855 Pages: 128 Publication Date: 30 June 2019 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsRoyer's study is a brilliant repositioning of Duras's cinema as a poetical, multisensory experience. Informed by recent developments in neuroscience and film theory such as embodied spectatorship and cinesthetic encounters and the feminist criticism of Irigaray, Kristeva, Cixous and others, Royer illuminates Duras's radically innovative--and gendered--cinematic voice and syntax. A masterly analysis.--Professor Carol J. Murphy, University of Florida Author InformationMichelle Royer is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of French and Francophone Studies at the University of Sydney, where she teaches French speaking cinema. Her research focuses on 20th and 21st Century cinema, French socio-political films, French female filmmakers, Marguerite Duras's cinema and French feminist thought. She has published extensively on French Female filmmakers and on star studies in French and in English. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |