Photo-textes - Contemporary French Writing of the Photographic Image

Informationen zum Autor Andy Stafford is Senior Lecturer in French at the University of Leeds and co-editor of 'The Modern Essay in French' (Peter Lang, 2005) among other publications. Klappentext In today's image-saturated society! photograph and text live side-by-side! engaged in a complex collaboration. Andy Stafford critically examines this interplay in "Photo-texts!" taking nine case studies from the 1990s French-speaking world and looking at the interaction between non-fictional written texts (caption! essay! fragment! poem) and photographic images. The "photo-text!" as he defines it! is concerned as much with the oral as it is with visual and written culture. That text-image collaborations give space to the spoken! spectral traces of spoken human discourse suggests that the key element of the photo-text is its radical provisionality--that it is inherently unstable and ever-changing. This pathbreaking study offers a vital resource for scholars in contemporary French and francophone cultures. Zusammenfassung Thus! the photo-text! as defined here! is concerned as much with orality - the demotic! the popular! the vernacular - as it is with visual and written culture.

Product details

• Authors: Andrew Stafford, Andrew (Department of French Stafford, Andrew James Stafford, Andy Stafford
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 15.07.2010, delayed
• EAN: 9781846310522
• ISBN: 978-1-84631-052-2
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures; CONTEMPORARY FRENCH AND FRANCO; Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures; CONTEMPORARY FRENCH AND FRANCO
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Media science; Fotografie, Französisch, Photography, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / French, PHOTOGRAPHY / Criticism