Cinema and Language Loss

2013 Language Arts & Disciplines

Author : Tijana Mamula
Release : 2013
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
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Download or read book Cinema and Language Loss written by Tijana Mamula. This book was released on 2013. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. In tracing the encounter between cinema and language loss across a wide range of films - from Billy Wilder's Sunset Boulevard to Chantal Akerman's News from Home to Michael Haneke's Caché - Mamula reevaluates the role of displacement in postwar Western film and makes an original contribution to film theory and philosophy based on a reconsideration of the place of language in our experience and understanding of cinema.

Cinema and Language Loss

2013-03-05 Performing Arts

Author : Tijana Mamula
Release : 2013-03-05
Genre : Performing Arts
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Download or read book Cinema and Language Loss written by Tijana Mamula. This book was released on 2013-03-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 dynamics of this shift are particularly evident in the works of many displaced filmmakers, which often manifest a conflicted interaction between language and vision, and through this question the signifying potential, and the perceptual ambiguities, of cinema itself. In tracing the encounter between cinema and language loss across a wide range of films – from Billy Wilder’s Sunset Boulevard to Chantal Akerman’s News from Home to Michael Haneke’s Caché – Mamula reevaluates the role of displacement in postwar Western film and makes an original contribution to film theory and philosophy based on a reconsideration of the place of language in our experience and understanding of cinema.

Visions of Linguistic Displacement

2010 Language attrition

Author : Tijana Mamula
Release : 2010
Genre : Language attrition
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Download or read book Visions of Linguistic Displacement written by Tijana Mamula. This book was released on 2010. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis explores the problematic relationship between language loss and visuality in European exile and emigre filmmaking, from the 1940s until the present. The basic theoretical premise adopts Freud's theory of aphasia and its Kristevan interpretation to define the psychic effects of linguistic displacement as the scission of the word-presentation from the thing-presentation and the consequent denial of the symbolic signifier. This depletion of language is compensated or overcompensated for through recourse to the indexical (semiotic) signification of photography, whose psychological significance resides both in its eschewal of the arbitrariness of the signifier, and in its revindication of the semiotic materiality that is indispensable to a meaningful relation to language. At the same time, the overreliance on vision/indexicality risks a hallucinatory excess against which no signification is possible, thus positing an irremediable paradox at the heart of the relationship between linguistic displacement and cinematic visuality. In enacting this relationship, both formally and thematically, the films discussed here attest not only to the crucial, and underexplored, impact of language loss on the development of Western cinema, but also to its theoretical implications for the medium as such. -- Following the introduction, the thesis proceeds through four thematically organized chapters, whose films were selected both for their manifest links to linguistic displacement and for their widespread influence.

The Multilingual Screen

2016-06-30 Performing Arts

Author : Tijana Mamula
Release : 2016-06-30
Genre : Performing Arts
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Download or read book The Multilingual Screen written by Tijana Mamula. This book was released on 2016-06-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Multilingual Screen is the first edited volume to offer a wide-ranging exploration of the place of multilingualism in cinema, investigating the ways in which linguistic difference and exchange have shaped, and continue to shape, the medium's history. Moving across a vast array of geographical, historical, and theoretical contexts-from Japanese colonial filmmaking to the French New Wave to contemporary artists' moving image-the essays collected here address the aesthetic, political, and industrial significance of multilingualism in film production and reception. In grouping these works together, The Multilingual Screen discerns and emphasizes the areas of study most crucial to forging a renewed understanding of the relationship between cinema and language diversity. In particular, it reassesses the methodologies and frameworks that have influenced the study of filmic multilingualism to propose that its force is also, and perhaps counterintuitively, a silent one. While most studies of the subject have explored linguistic difference as a largely audible phenomenon-manifested through polyglot dialogues, or through the translation of monolingual dialogues for international audiences-The Multilingual Screen traces some of its unheard histories, contributing to a new field of inquiry based on an attentiveness to multilingualism's work beyond the soundtrack.

Mourning Films

2012-09-18 Performing Arts

Author : Richard Armstrong
Release : 2012-09-18
Genre : Performing Arts
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Book Rating : 143/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Mourning Films written by Richard Armstrong. This book was released on 2012-09-18. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first in-depth study of its subject, this book seeks to account for a type of modernist film that revolves around bereavement. Identifying the roots of the genre in classical melodrama and horror cinema, and tracing perennial themes and aesthetic devices through to the European and American "intellectual melodramas" of the postwar decades, the book provides a taxonomy of characteristics. In the course of detailed case studies, the book deploys the film theory of Gilles Deleuze and Daniel Frampton while making use of Freudian psychoanalysis and present-day grief counseling theory. In making its case for the new genre, the book reflects upon the ways in which the very notion of genre has, in the post-classical period, responded to changing exhibition patterns, the rise of domestic spectatorship and the proliferation of Web-based film literature.

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