Love, mortality and the moving image

Love, mortality and the moving image

Wilson, Emma

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In their use of home movies, collages of photographs and live footage, movingimage artists explore the wish to see dead loved ones living. This study closely explores emotions and sensations surrounding mortality and longing, with new readings of works by Agnès Varda, Pedro Almodóvar, Ingmar Bergman, Sophie Calle, and many others. EMMA WILSON Professor of French Literature and the Visual Arts at the University of Cambridge, UK, and a Fellow of Corpus Christi College. She is CourseDirector of the MPhil in Screen Media and Cultures. Her recent books include 'Cinema's Missing Children' (2003), 'Alain Resnais' (2006) and 'Atom Egoyan' (2009). INDICE: Acknowledgements - List of Illustrations - Introduction - Love - Mother - Child - Coma - Pietà - Touch - Home - Conclusion - Works Cited - Moving Image Artworks - Index -

  • ISBN: 978-0-230-30839-8
  • Editorial: Palgrave MacM
  • Encuadernacion: Cartoné
  • Páginas: 208
  • Fecha Publicación: 27/01/2012
  • Nº Volúmenes: 1
  • Idioma: Inglés