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Record Nr.

UNINA9910792196103321

Autore

Mamula Tijana <1981-, >

Titolo

Cinema and language loss : displacement, visuality and the filmic image / / by Tijana Mamula

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2013

ISBN

1-136-22737-7

0-203-09852-8

1-299-27959-7

1-136-22738-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (301 p.)

Collana

Routledge advances in film studies ; ; 21

Disciplina

791.4301/9

Soggetti

Intercultural communication in motion pictures

Language and languages in motion pictures

Motion pictures and language

Motion pictures - Psychological aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-271) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- When images begin to sound: a theoretical framework -- Language and reification in the "emigreĢ" film noir -- The "question of language" in postwar Italian cinema -- Linguistic displacement and sound-image disjunction -- Linguistic displacement and uncanny discourse -- Concluding remarks.

Sommario/riassunto

Cinema and Language Loss provides the first sustained exploration of the relationship between linguistic displacement and visuality in the filmic realm, examining in depth both its formal expressions and theoretical implications. Combining insights from psychoanalysis, philosophy and film theory, the author argues that the move from one linguistic environment to another profoundly destabilizes the subject's relation to both language and reality, resulting in the search for a substitute for language in vision itself - a reversal, as it were, of speaking into seeing. The dynam