Black and Blue The Bruising Passion of Camera Lucida, la Jete, Sans Soleil, and Hiroshima Mon Amour

Name: Black and Blue The Bruising Passion of Camera Lucida, la Jete, Sans Soleil, and Hiroshima Mon Amour
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ISBN: 9780822352716

ISBN-10: 0822352710

ISBN-13: 9780822352716

Edition: 2012

Authors: Carol Mavor

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Audacious and genre-defying,Black and Blueis seeped in melancholy, in the feeling of being blue, or, rather, black and blue, with all the literality of bruised flesh. Roland Barthes and Marcel Proust are inspirations and subjects of Carol Mavor's exquisite, image-filled rumination on efforts to capture fleeting moments and to comprehend the incomprehensible. At the book's heart are one book and three films, Roland Barthes'sCamera Lucida, Chris Marker'sLa JetéeandSans soleil, and Marguerite Duras's and Alain Resnais'sHiroshima mon amour, postwar French works that register disturbing truths about loss and regret, and violence and history, through aesthetic refinement.Personal recollections…

Book details

List price: $25.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication date: 9/25/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 216
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English