Quiet Pictures: Women and Silence in Contemporary British and French Cinema
Sarah Artt, "Quiet Pictures: Women and Silence in Contemporary British and French Cinema"
English | ISBN: 1501347217 | 2024 | 184 pages | PDF | 3 MB
English | ISBN: 1501347217 | 2024 | 184 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Quiet Pictures approaches the films of Joanna Hogg, Lynne Ramsay, Céline Sciamma, and Lucile Hadžhalilovicthrough the lens of silence as a motif and texture.
This book takes up the question of different uses of silence in the work of these directors and how this creates a space for foregrounding innovative practices that establish new ways of looking, staring, and gazing. Sarah Artt discusses how the deliberate deployment of silence creates space for the formation of reciprocal gazes that counteract the typically gendered and binary ways in which women and femme-presenting people tend to be portrayed on screen. Quiet Pictures draws on the political legacy of feminist film theory to explore and conceptualise what it means to not just look back, but to share the gaze.
This book discusses several films, including:
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