Mavor Carol Mavor

Black and Blue (eBook, PDF)

The Bruising Passion of Camera Lucida, La Jete, Sans soleil, and Hiroshima mon amour

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Produktbeschreibung

Audacious and genre-defying, Black and Blue is steeped in melancholy, in the feeling of being blue, or, rather, black and blue, with all the literality of bruised flesh. Roland Barthes and Marcel Proust are inspirations for and subjects of Carol Mavor's exquisite, image-filled rumination on efforts to capture fleeting moments and to comprehend the incomprehensible. At the book's heart are one book and three films-Roland Barthes's Camera Lucida, Chris Marker's La Jetee and Sans soleil, and Marguerite Duras's and Alain Resnais's Hiroshima mon amour-postwar French works that register disturbing truths about loss and regret, and violence and history, through aesthetic refinement.Personal recollections punctuate Mavor's dazzling interpretations of these and many other works of art and criticism. Childhood memories become Proust's "e;small-scale contrivances,"e; tiny sensations that open onto panoramas. Mavor's mother lost her memory to Alzheimer's, and Black and Blue is framed by the author's memories of her mother and effort to understand what it means to not be recognized by one to whom you were once so known.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. September 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822395461
• Artikelnr.: 54788177

Autorenporträt

Carol Mavor

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments ix
Abbreviations xi
Introduction. First Things: Two Black and Blue Thoughts 1
Author's Note I. A Sewing Needle inside a Plastic and Rubber Suction Cup
Sitting on a Watch Spring; or, An Object for Seeing Nothing 17
1. Elegy of Milk, in Black and Blue: The Bruising of La Chambre claire 22
2. "A" is for Alice, for Amnesia, for Anamnesis: A Fairy Tale (Almost Blue)
Called La Jetée 53
3. Happiness with a Long Piece of Black Leader: Chris Marker's Sans soleil
77
Author's Note II. She Wrote Me 111
4. "Summer Was inside the Marble": Alain Resnais's and Magurite Duras's
Hiroshima mon amour 114
List of Illustrations 161
Notes 169
Index 191