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A visual conundrum in Nicholas Ray’s bigger than life| old_uid | 13051 |
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| title | A visual conundrum in Nicholas Ray’s bigger than life |
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| start_date | 2013/11/22 |
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| schedule | 11h-13h |
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| online | no |
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| location_info | Pavillon Pasteur |
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| summary | In an earlier talk, “Imagined Seeing and the Rhetoric of Narrative Film,” I argued that many aspects of the ‘meaning’ or ‘significance’ of a given film are best understood as products of a kind of ‘visual rhetoric’. That is, relevant movie audiences are persuaded that the narrative events in the movie—the events in a certain segment, for instance--are most aptly imagined as falling within a certain pattern of explanation and valuation. In this talk, I use Nicholas Ray’s 1956 melodrama Bigger than Life as a striking example of the claim in question. In the course of defending my approach to this movie, I provide a relatively close examination of the film as a whole and of a certain remarkable segment in particular, arguing for the interpretative strategy that, in my opinion, illuminates the opacity of the segment most naturally. Of course, I also try to link this specific interpretation to some of my broader claims about the ‘visual rhetoric of movie narrative.’ |
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| responsibles | Schlenker |
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