A Mindscape of Mirrors: Persona and the Cinema of Self-Perception
Like Sylvia Plath’s mirror, which promises then imperils her ideal self, the gaze of the other in Persona is a double-edged sword: a threat to pure subjectivity but also the[…]
Author: Kate Kennelly
Kate Kennelly is a recent graduate of Pomona College with a double major in French and International Relations and currently works as a teaching assistant for the French embassy in Paris.
Directors · Documentaries · Experimental & Underground · War
Re-envisioning the Postwar Documentary: Alain Resnais’s Night and Fog and Hiroshima mon amour
Despite the reputation that Alain Resnais has garnered as “cinema’s definitive artist of postwar trauma,” few scholars have undertaken a detailed comparative analysis of his two works that broach this[…]
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