[Commlist] New Book: Audiovisual Thinking and the Essay Film: The Case of Francophone Europe

NEW BOOK: Audiovisual Thinking and the Essay Film: The Case of 
Francophone Europe

                       Author: Lourdes Monterrubio Ibáñez

Open-access monograph published by Amsterdam University Press

https://www.aup.nl/en/book/9789048556915/audiovisual-thinking-and-the-essay-film 
<https://www.aup.nl/en/book/9789048556915/audiovisual-thinking-and-the-essay-film>

Available at:

OAPEN Library https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/98679 
<https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/98679>

JSTOR https://www.jstor.org/stable/jj.25577273 
<https://www.jstor.org/stable/jj.25577273>

De Gruyter 
https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9789048556915/html 
<https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9789048556915/html>

 From a semio-pragmatic perspective and drawing on an interdisciplinary 
and intermedial approach, this book analyses how the audiovisual 
thinking process manifests itself in essay films. It explores how issues 
of subjectivity and identity, whether individual, social, political or 
cultural, prompt thought through the medium of cinema. The volume 
discusses the European Francophone essay film from its first appearance 
in cinematic modernity to the present. The study is developed in three 
stages. The first analyses the intermedial forms that are used: the 
letter, the (self-)portrait, the dialogue, the diptych, etc. The second 
examines the audiovisual materials that are mobilised. The third 
addresses the audiovisual procedures that are generated. In its analysis 
of works by Marker, Godard, Akerman, Varda and others, this book offers 
a new and detailed understanding of the production, evolution and 
achievements of the essay film in Francophone Europe.

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Table of contents

Introduction: Audiovisual Thinking and Enuciative Devices

1. The Letter

/Lettre de Sibérie/: Reality, Imagination, and the Subjectivity of Knowledge

/Letter to Jane/: Political and Cinematic Dialectics

/Lettre à Freddy Buache/: From Observation to Abstraction

/News from Home/: Exploring Female Alterity

/Sans soleil/: Reflecting on Postmodernity

Conclusions

2. The (Self-)Portrait

/Jane B. par Agnès V./: Women’s Identity, Intersubjectivity and Sisterhood

/JLG/JLG, autoportrait de décembre/: Authorial Identity and the Creative 
Process

/Leçons de ténèbres/: Exploring Gay Identity Through Pictorial 
Intermediality

Conclusions

3. The Dialogue

/Si j’avais quatre dromadaires/: From Photographic Spectatorship to 
Audiovisual Reflection

Maso et Miso vont en bateau: Feminist Counter-Narrative Through 
Irreverence and Irony

/Papa comme maman/: Producing Sociological Analysis

/Le Camion/: Fiction Fabulation as Author–Spectator Dialogue

Conclusions

4. The Diptych

/Camera-Eye/: Documentary vs Fiction for Political Engagement

/Ici et ailleurs/: Rethinking Militant Cinema

/Scénario du film Sauve qui peut (la vie)/: Thinking vs Fabulating

/Scénario du film Passion/: Rethinking Fiction Cinema

Conclusions

5. Hybridisations

/Lettres d’amour en Somalie/: Between Epistolary Intimacy and Diaristic 
Reality as Socio-Political Acknowledgement

/Du verbe aimer/: Between Autobiography and Self-Portrait as Identity 
Fracture

/Les Plages d’Agnès/: Between Self-Portrait and Autobiography as 
Identity Reconciliation

Conclusions

6. Saturation

/Level Five/: Hybridisations and Complexification

/Histoire(s) du cinéma/: Reflective Constellations and Accumulation

Conclusions

7. Autofiction

/Lettre pour L…:/From Autobiography to Self-Criticism

/Pourquoi (pas) le Brésil/: From Adaptation to Self-Knowledge

/Viaggio nella dopo-storia/: From Modernity to Contemporaneity Through 
Appropriation

Conclusions

8. The Spectator’s Position

/Face aux fantômes/: The Mobilisation of the Gaze

/Jaurès/: The Immobilisation of the Gaze

/Ailleurs, partout/: Sharing the Non-gaze

Conclusions

Conclusion : Identity and Critical Thinking

Bibliography

Index


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