Research Catalog

Title

Black and blue : the bruising passion of Camera lucida, La Jetée, Sans soleil, and Hiroshima mon amour / Carol Mavor.

Author

Mavor, Carol, 1957-

Publication

Durham : Duke University Press, 2012.

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Description

xvi, 193 pages : illustrations (some color); 22 cm

Subjects

• Blue
• Colors in motion pictures
• Marker, Chris, 1921-2012 > Criticism and interpretation
• Hiroshima mon amour (Motion picture)
• Sans soleil (Motion picture)
• Resnais, Alain, 1922-2014 > Criticism and interpretation
• Motion pictures, French > 20th century > History and criticism
• Jetée (Motion picture)
• Barthes, Roland > Chambre claire
• Black
• Blue in literature
• Black in literature
• Duras, Marguerite > Criticism and interpretation

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction. First things : two black and blue thoughts -- 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 -- Elegy of milk, in black and blue : the bruising of La Chambre claire -- "A" is for Alice, for amnesia, for anamnesis : a fairy tale (almost blue) called La Jetée -- Happiness with a long piece of black leader : Chris Marker's Sans soleil -- Author's note II. She wrote me -- "Summer was inside the marble" : Alain Resnais and Ma[r]gu[e]rite Duras's Hiroshima mon amour.

ISBN

• 9780822352525 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0822352524 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 9780822352716 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0822352710 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

2011053303

OCLC

• ocn769871256
• 769871256
• SCSB-5659826

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries