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Informationen zum Autor Carol Mavor Klappentext Postwar French works that register disturbing truths about loss and regret, and violence and history, through aesthetic refinement anchor this exquisite, image-filled rumination on efforts to capture fleeting moments and comprehend the incomprehensible. Zusammenfassung Postwar French works that register disturbing truths about loss and regret! and violence and history! through aesthetic refinement anchor this exquisite! image-filled rumination on efforts to capture fleeting moments and comprehend the incomprehensible. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments ix Abbreviations xi Introduction. First Things: Two Black and Blue Thoughts 1 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 17 1. Elegy of Milk, in Black and Blue: The Bruising of La Chambre claire 22 2. "A" is for Alice, for Amnesia, for Anamnesis: A Fairy Tale (Almost Blue) Called La Jetée 53 3. Happiness with a Long Piece of Black Leader: Chris Marker's Sans soleil 77 Author's Note II. She Wrote Me 111 4. "Summer Was inside the Marble": Alain Resnais's and Magurite Duras's Hiroshima mon amour 114 List of Illustrations 161 Notes 169 Index 191
