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
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• 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
• 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.: 9910808382803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II