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  • Reorienting objects in Alain Resnais and Chris Marker’s Les Statues Meurent Aussi 

    O'Dwyer, Jules (Oxford University Press, 2017-12-01)
    Chris Marker’s six-minute film Junkopia (1981) was shot alongside his ambitious feature-length project Sans Soleil/Sunless (1982). While the latter ‘nomadic’ film-text comprises a string of encounters spanning national and ...

  • Gesture and the cinéaste: Akerman/Agamben, Varda/Warburg 

    Mowat, Hannah Barbara (Department of French, University of Cambridge, 2016-03-01)
    This thesis offers an adjunct to recent theories of the haptic contingent upon proximity by considering how embodied engagement might take place at a distance. Developing a broad definition of gesture as a motion away from ...