Of Things and People in Jean Renoir’s “La Grande Illusion”
Abstract
The author deals with the dialectic of material presence and absence in the many representations of reality in Jean Renoir’s La grande illusion (1937), in which the subject, through is substantiveness accentuated by long shots with depth of field, at the same time indicates the absence of something or someone else. The author argues that the dialectic of material presence and absence disturbs and undermines the stability of categories of gender and national identity. Similarly the category of film realism is destabilized.
Keywords:
Jean Renoir, presence, absence, identityReferences
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Elżbieta Ostrowska-Chmurakwartalnik.filmowy@ispan.pl
University of Alberta Poland
Wykłada film na University of Alberta w Edmonton (Kanada). Ostatnio opublikowała: Women in Polish Cinema (współautorka Ewa Mazierska, 2006), The Cinema of Roman Polanski. Dark Spaces of the World (współredaktor John Orr, 2006), The Cinema of Andrzej Wajda. The Art of Irony and Defiance (współredaktor John Orr, 2003).
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