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Description:Chris Marker, who started his career as a political and cultural essayist in post- World War II France, is most well-known as an avant-garde documentary filmmaker working as part of The French New Wave of the 1950s and 1960s. For Marker, interest in the documentary enterprise centers on the issue of objective versus subjective representation. His films focus on the roles memory, time, and emotion play in the representation of historical events. My thesis contributes a detailed analysis of Sans Soleil (1982), the film recognized as Marker’s masterpiece within his oeuvre and as the work which links the politics and aesthetics of 1960s film culture with today’s media environment. His baroquely-layered feature-length documentary is part travelogue, part diary entry, and part political commentary. Marker is less interested in conveying facts of the world than in teaching his audience how to evaluate the stream of images of the world that come into their living rooms everyday. I argue that Marker employs a number of cinematic techniques which work to undermine the traditional narrative experience, most notably the incorporation of the gaze of the animal and the machine, as means to animate the viewer into an active role as producer of meaning. In Chapter 1, I introduce Chris Marker and the context for his transition from writer to filmmaker, situating him within the larger New Wave of filmmaking that was sweeping France. Chapter 2 begins the close reading of Sans Soleil. I explicate several of the various cinematic modes Marker uses to organize the dense narrative, such as a rhizome-like narrative structure, and the novel use of the gaze and montage. Chapter 3 continues the close analysis of the film, focusing on Marker’s attention to animals and new technology. Marker’s innovative inclusion of the animal and machine helps viewers see themselves as part of both natural and cultural systems simultaneously. Sans Soleil offers a codex of representational strategies that provoke a viewer into thinking of him or herself as a political being, an important role for Chris Marker who uses film as a tool for activism.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with "Voyeurizing the Voyeurs": An Analysis of the Gaze of the Non-human Other in Chris Marker's Film Sans Soleil. To get started finding "Voyeurizing the Voyeurs": An Analysis of the Gaze of the Non-human Other in Chris Marker's Film Sans Soleil, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 152

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Publisher: University of Alabama at Birmingham

Release: 2009

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Description: Chris Marker, who started his career as a political and cultural essayist in post- World War II France, is most well-known as an avant-garde documentary filmmaker working as part of The French New Wave of the 1950s and 1960s. For Marker, interest in the documentary enterprise centers on the issue of objective versus subjective representation. His films focus on the roles memory, time, and emotion play in the representation of historical events. My thesis contributes a detailed analysis of Sans Soleil (1982), the film recognized as Marker’s masterpiece within his oeuvre and as the work which links the politics and aesthetics of 1960s film culture with today’s media environment. His baroquely-layered feature-length documentary is part travelogue, part diary entry, and part political commentary. Marker is less interested in conveying facts of the world than in teaching his audience how to evaluate the stream of images of the world that come into their living rooms everyday. I argue that Marker employs a number of cinematic techniques which work to undermine the traditional narrative experience, most notably the incorporation of the gaze of the animal and the machine, as means to animate the viewer into an active role as producer of meaning. In Chapter 1, I introduce Chris Marker and the context for his transition from writer to filmmaker, situating him within the larger New Wave of filmmaking that was sweeping France. Chapter 2 begins the close reading of Sans Soleil. I explicate several of the various cinematic modes Marker uses to organize the dense narrative, such as a rhizome-like narrative structure, and the novel use of the gaze and montage. Chapter 3 continues the close analysis of the film, focusing on Marker’s attention to animals and new technology. Marker’s innovative inclusion of the animal and machine helps viewers see themselves as part of both natural and cultural systems simultaneously. Sans Soleil offers a codex of representational strategies that provoke a viewer into thinking of him or herself as a political being, an important role for Chris Marker who uses film as a tool for activism.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with "Voyeurizing the Voyeurs": An Analysis of the Gaze of the Non-human Other in Chris Marker's Film Sans Soleil. To get started finding "Voyeurizing the Voyeurs": An Analysis of the Gaze of the Non-human Other in Chris Marker's Film Sans Soleil, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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