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

• Autore: Mamula Tijana <1981-, >
• Pubblicazione: New York : , : Routledge, , 2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (301 p.)
• Disciplina: 791.4301/9
• Soggetto topico: Intercultural communication in motion pictures; Language and languages in motion pictures; Motion pictures and language; Motion pictures - Psychological aspects
• 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 "emigré" 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Cinema and language loss
• ISBN: 1-136-22737-7; 0-203-09852-8; 1-299-27959-7; 1-136-22738-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910792196103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Routledge advances in film studies ; ; 21.