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Quiet Pictures: Women and Silence in Contemporary British and French Cinema
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9781501347214
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9781501347214
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Quiet Pictures: Women and Silence in Contemporary British and French Cinema
$131.02
Quiet Pictures approaches the films of Joanna Hogg, Lynne Ramsay, C?line Sciamma, and Lucile Hadzhalilovicthrough the lens of silence as a motif and texture.
This book takes up the question of different uses of silence in the work of these directors and how this creates a space for foregrounding innovative practices that establish new ways of looking, staring, and gazing. Sarah Artt discusses how the deliberate deployment of silence creates space for the formation of reciprocal gazes that counteract the typically gendered and binary ways in which women and femme-presenting people tend to be portrayed on screen. Quiet Pictures draws on the political legacy of feminist film theory to explore and conceptualise what it means to not just look back, but to share the gaze.
This book discusses several films, including: Unrelated(Hogg, 2007), Archipelago(Hogg, 2010), Exhibition(Hogg, 2013), The Souvenir Part I and II(Hogg, 2019 and 2021), Morvern Callar(Ramsay, 2002), We Need to Talk About Kevin(Ramsay, 2011), Innocence(Hadzhalilovic 2004), Evolution(Hadzhalilovic 2015), Waterlilies/Naissance des Pieuvres(Sciamma, 2007), Tomboy(Sciamma, 2011), Girlhood/Bande des Filles(Sciamma, 2014), Portrait of a Lady on Fire/Portrait d'une jeune fille en feu(Sciamma, 2019), and Petite Maman/Little Mother(Sciamma, 2021).
This book takes up the question of different uses of silence in the work of these directors and how this creates a space for foregrounding innovative practices that establish new ways of looking, staring, and gazing. Sarah Artt discusses how the deliberate deployment of silence creates space for the formation of reciprocal gazes that counteract the typically gendered and binary ways in which women and femme-presenting people tend to be portrayed on screen. Quiet Pictures draws on the political legacy of feminist film theory to explore and conceptualise what it means to not just look back, but to share the gaze.
This book discusses several films, including: Unrelated(Hogg, 2007), Archipelago(Hogg, 2010), Exhibition(Hogg, 2013), The Souvenir Part I and II(Hogg, 2019 and 2021), Morvern Callar(Ramsay, 2002), We Need to Talk About Kevin(Ramsay, 2011), Innocence(Hadzhalilovic 2004), Evolution(Hadzhalilovic 2015), Waterlilies/Naissance des Pieuvres(Sciamma, 2007), Tomboy(Sciamma, 2011), Girlhood/Bande des Filles(Sciamma, 2014), Portrait of a Lady on Fire/Portrait d'une jeune fille en feu(Sciamma, 2019), and Petite Maman/Little Mother(Sciamma, 2021).
| Author: Sarah Artt |
| Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Publication Date: May 16, 2024 |
| Number of Pages: 184 pages |
| Binding: Hardback or Cased Book |
| ISBN-10: 1501347217 |
| ISBN-13: 9781501347214 |
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