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Titolo: | Textual & visual selves [[electronic resource] ] : photography, film, and comic art in French autobiography / / edited by Natalie Edwards, Amy L. Hubbell, and Ann Miller |
Pubblicazione: | Lincoln [Neb.], : University of Nebraska Press, c2011 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (286 p.) |
Disciplina: | 840.9/35 |
Soggetto topico: | French prose literature - History and criticism |
Authors, French - Biography - History and criticism | |
Art in literature | |
Autobiography - Authorship | |
Visual perception in literature | |
Literature and photography - France | |
Self in literature | |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
Altri autori: | EdwardsNatalie HubbellAmy L MillerAnn <1949 Sept. 1-> |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Textual and Visual Selves; 1. Beyond Autobiography; 2. Chronicles of Intimacy: Photography in Autobiographical Projects; 3. The Absent Body: Photography and Autobiography in Hélène Cixous's Photos de racines and Annie Ernaux andMarc Marie's L'Usage de la photo; 4. The Photobiographical Today: Signs of an Identity Crisis?; 5. Reclaiming the Void: The Cinematographic Aesthetic of Marguerite Duras's Autobiographical Novels |
6. Illustration Revisited: Phototextual Exchange and Resistance in Sophie Calle's Suite vénitienne7. Viewing the Past through a "Nostalgeric" Len s: Pied-Noir Photodocumentaries; 8. Georges Perec, Memory, and Photography; 9. The Self-Portrait in French Cinema: Reflections on Theory and on Agnès Varda'sLes Glaneurs et la glaneuse; 10. Autobiography in Bande Dessinée; Contributors; Index | |
Sommario/riassunto: | Autobiography in France has taken a decidedly visual turn in recent years: photographs, shown or withheld, become evidence of what was, might have been, or cannot be said; photographers, filmmakers, and cartoonists undertake projects that explore issues of identity. Textual and Visual Selves investigates, from a variety of theoretical perspectives, the ways in which the textual and the visual combine in certain French works to reconfigure ideas-and images-of self-representation.Surprisingly, what these accounts reveal is that photography or film does not necessarily serve to shore up the refer |
Altri titoli varianti: | Textual and visual selves |
Titolo autorizzato: | Textual & visual selves |
ISBN: | 1-280-49776-9 |
9786613592996 | |
0-8032-3799-5 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910461081003321 |
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