Kristeva in Focus: From Theory to Film Analysis (Fertility, Reproduction & Sexuality)

Kristeva in Focus: From Theory to Film Analysis (Fertility, Reproduction & Sexuality)

Katherine J. Goodnow

Language: English

Pages: 240

ISBN: 1845456122

Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub


Dealing with some of the major themes in film narratives, this book draws on the theories of French psychoanalyst Julia Kristeva. It looks at how narratives have changed over time, and considers the sources of our variable reactions to themes and representations of horror, strangers, and love.

In addition to a selection of contemporary mainstream films, the major films for analysis are New Zealand "New Wave" films such as Alison Maclean's Kitchen Sink and Crush; Vincent Ward's Vigil; and Jane Campion's Sweety, An Angel at My Table, and The Piano.

Citizen Kane (BFI Film Classics)

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La regle du jeu – Rules of the Game (BFI Film Classics)

David Lynch: Beautiful Dark (Scarecrow Filmmakers)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

a minority culture who has been able to make an important film... and reached not only their own audience but audiences beyond them has started to have that effect...[;] there is a very big complex international indigenous filmmakers' network. They meet regularly, they swap ideas and occasionally they will swap directors. There is a lot of interchange and interface now.87 The text of society and history 177 In effect, the group called 'the filmmakers' becomes all the more heterogeneous in

organized on the inside as a regulated system. Hence the reason for the exact repetition of parts of the melody, which traced the coordinates of a musical oeuvre as a particular system in and of itself, which were different, for example, in Bach and succeeding composers.69 Two questions stand out when one reads such comments upon the necessarily dynamic connection between speaker and addressee. One takes the form: what is the nature of the relationship between the two? The other asks: where is

earlier traditions.14 The 'text of society and history' is also a pervasive and continuing theme. To take one early example, her writing about 'the bounded text' (1980) emphasizes the need for analyses that 'define the specificity of different textual arrangements by placing them within the general text (culture) of which they are a part and which, in turn, is part of them'.15 It appears also in a later comment on works by Picasso: Les Demoiselles d'Avignon and Guernica: Both works transpose the

original 7. Ibid.,p.3, emphasis in original 8. Creed (1985). 9. Kristeva (1982, p.93). 10. Ibid.,p.93. 11. Ibid.,p.94. 12. Ibid.,p.ll3. 13. Ibid.,p.l22. 14. Ibid.,p.l28. 15. The bounded texf, in Julia Kristeva (1980) Desire in .language: A semiotic approach to literature and art. New York: Columbia University Press, pp.36-63. 16. For that matter, the term disposal is in English as polysemic as the French propre, if not more so: at my disposal, disposed of, indisposed, and rubbish disposal are

the seven that follow are from the chapter on 'Romeo and Juliet Love-hatred in the couple'. 27. Ibid.,p.209. 28. Ibid.,p.225. 29. Ibid.,p.209. 30. Ibid.,p.226. 31. Ibid.,p.209. 32. Ibid.,p.225. 33. Ibid.,p.225. 34. E.g., Michel Foucault (1980) Power/knowledge: Selected interviews and other writings 19721977, Brighton: Harvester Press. 35. Kristeva (1987b, p.9). 36. Ibid.,p.81. 37. Jane Campion (1993a) in interview with Lynden Barber Tlaying it low-key'. In The Sydney Morning Herald, 3 August,

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