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1 online resource |
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Routledge Advances in Film Studies ; 21 |
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Routledge advances in film studies ; 21.
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Cinema and Language Loss Displacement, Visuality and the Filmic Image; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Images Begin to Sound: A Theoretical Framework; A Plausible Psychology; Displacement and Asymbolia; The Cinematic Sign; 2 Language andReification in the Émigré Film Noir; Something More Than Night; Dead Words: The Noir's Tautological Voiceover; Living Pictures (of Unknown Women); 3 The "Question of Language" in Postwar Italian Cinema; Il viaggio linguistico; Cinema as Memory and Writing; A New Way of Seeing and Speaking |
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Coda: The Melodramatic Disjunction of La terra trema4 Linguistic Displacement and Sound-Image Disjunction; The Natural Disjointedness of Cinema; The Filmic Metaphor: India Song; The Extimate Cinema of Luis Buñuel; 5 Linguistic Displacement and Uncanny Discourse; The Unheimliche : A Matter of Language; The Line between Fantasy and Reality: From Roman Polanski to Krzysztof Kies ́lowski; A Violent Encounter: From Michael Haneke to Chris Marker; Concluding Remarks; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
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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 |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Print version record |
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Intercultural communication in motion pictures.
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Language and languages in motion pictures.
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Motion pictures and language.
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Motion pictures -- Psychological aspects
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- History & Criticism.
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Intercultural communication in motion pictures
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Language and languages in motion pictures
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Motion pictures and language
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Motion pictures -- Psychological aspects
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781136227387 |
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1136227385 |
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