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Textual and Visual Selves: Photography, Film, and Comic Art in French Autobiography
Natalie Edwards
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Description for Textual and Visual Selves: Photography, Film, and Comic Art in French Autobiography
Paperback. Investigates ways in which the textual and the visual combine in certain French works to reconfigure ideas and images of self-representation Editor(s): Edwards, Natalie; Hubbell, Amy L.; Miller, Ann. Num Pages: 288 pages, 13 illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADF; AJ; AKLC; APF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 144 x 18. Weight in Grams: 382.
Autobiography in France has taken a decidedly visual turn in recent years: photographs, shown or withheld, become evidence of what was, might have been, or cannot be said; photographers, filmmakers, and cartoonists undertake projects that explore issues of identity. Textual and Visual Selves investigates, from a variety of theoretical perspectives, the ways in which the textual and the visual combine in certain French works to reconfigure ideas—and images—of self-representation.
Surprisingly, what these accounts reveal is that photography or film does not necessarily serve to shore up the referentiality of the autobiographical account: on the contrary, the inclusion of visual material ... Read more
Autobiography in France has taken a decidedly visual turn in recent years: photographs, shown or withheld, become evidence of what was, might have been, or cannot be said; photographers, filmmakers, and cartoonists undertake projects that explore issues of identity. Textual and Visual Selves investigates, from a variety of theoretical perspectives, the ways in which the textual and the visual combine in certain French works to reconfigure ideas—and images—of self-representation.
Surprisingly, what these accounts reveal is that photography or film does not necessarily serve to shore up the referentiality of the autobiographical account: on the contrary, the inclusion of visual material ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Lincoln, United States
ISBN
9780803236318
SKU
V9780803236318
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About Natalie Edwards
Natalie Edwards is an assistant professor of French at Wagner College and coeditor of This Self Which Is Not One: Women’s Life Writing in French. Amy L. Hubbell is an associate professor of French at Kansas State University, lecturer in French at the University of Queensland, and the author of À la recherche d’un emploi: Business French in a Communicative Context. ... Read more
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