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Orlando (Paperback)
Loot Price: R435
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Orlando (Paperback)
Series: Queer Film Classics
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Loot Price R435
Discovery Miles 4 350
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A film that transcends time, Sally Potter's Orlando follows its
titular character through nearly four hundred years of British
history. Orlando starts life as a young man in the 1600s and then,
mid-film, becomes a woman in the 1800s. Plot, production, and
performance have all contributed to the film becoming a touchstone
for Tilda Swinton's ethereal and gender-bending mode. A
Russian-French-Dutch-American-Italian-British co-production,
Orlando was hailed as a monumental work of international art house
cinema upon its release in 1992. Some understood Potter's film, a
work of ruthless and ingenious adaptation, as moving away from the
lesbian content of Virginia Woolf's novel. Russell Sheaffer uses a
detailed analysis of screenplay drafts and more than three decades
of reception to argue that while the film moves away from a direct
investment in same-sex relationships, Orlando's articulations of
embodiment, desire, and time have made the film continually more
queer in the years since its release. Taking cues from adaptation
theory and gender studies, this book meticulously charts the
distinct shift from lesbian feminist text to queer film classic,
arguing that the film is as much an adaptation of Woolf's A Room of
One's Own as it is of its eponymous novel.
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