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Noir and Blanchot - Deteriorations of the Event (Hardcover)
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Noir and Blanchot - Deteriorations of the Event (Hardcover)
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In dark or desperate times, the artwork is placed in a difficult
position. Optimism seems naive, while pessimism is no better.
During some of the most demanding years of the 20th century two
distinctive bodies of work sought to respond to this problem: the
writings of Maurice Blanchot and American film noir. Both were
seeking not only to respond to the times but also to critically
reflect them, but both were often criticised for their own
darkness. Understanding how this darkness became the means of
responding to the darkness of the times is the focus of Noir and
Blanchot, which examines key films from the period (including
Double Indemnity and Vertigo) alongside Blanchot's writings
(particularly his 1948 narrative Death Sentence). What emerges from
this investigation is the complex manner in which these works
disrupt the experience of time and the event and in doing so expose
an entirely different mode of material expression.
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