Black and blue
Subtitle: the bruised passion of Camera lucida, la Jetée, Sans soleil, and Hiroshima mon amour
By: Carol Mavor
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Durham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 193
ISBN-13: 9780822352525; 9780822352716
Subjects: Blue; Sans soleil (Motion picture); Black; Jetée (Motion picture); Hiroshima mon amour (Motion picture)
Description: Audacious and genre-defying, 'Black and Blue' is steeped in melancholy, in the feeling of being blue, or, rather, black and blue, with all the literality of bruised flesh. Mavor's mother lost her memory to Alzheimer's, and this book is framed by the author's memories of her mother and effort to understand what it means to not be recognized by one to whom you were once so known.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : first things : two black and blue thoughts; title: Author's note I. a sewing needle inside a plastic and rubber suction cup sitting on a watch spring, or, an object for seeing nothing; title: Elegy of milk, in black and blue : the bruising of La Chambre claire; title: "A" is for Alice, for amnesia, for anamnesis: a fairy tale (almost blue) called La Jetée; title: Happiness with a long piece of black leader : Chris Marker's sans soleil; title: Author's note II. She wrote me; title: "Summer was inside the marble": Alain Resnais and Magurite Duras's Hiroshima mon amour.