1st Edition
Audiovisual Thinking and the Essay Film The Case of Francophone Europe
By Lourdes Monterrubio Ibáñez
Copyright 2025
300 Pages
by
Routledge
300 Pages
by
Routledge
From a semio-pragmatic perspective and drawing on an interdisciplinary and intermedial approach, this book analyses how the audiovisual thinking process manifests itself in essay films. It explores how issues of subjectivity and identity, whether individual, social, political or cultural, prompt thought through the medium of cinema. The volume discusses the European Francophone essay film from its... Read more
Acknowledgements, Introduction. Audiovisual Thinking and Enunciative Devices, Chapter 1. The Letter: Lettre de Sibérie: Reality, imagination, and the subjectivity of knowledge, Chapter 2. The (Self-)Portrait, Chapter 3. The Dialogue, Chapter 4. The Diptych, Chapter 5. Hybridisations, Chapter 6. Saturation, Chapter 7. Autofiction, Chapter 8. The Spectator's Position, Conclusion. Identity and Critical Thinking, Bibliography, Index
Biography
Lourdes Monterrubio Ibáñez is currently a Ramón y Cajal Senior Research Fellow at Pompeu Fabra University. Previously, she was awarded a MSCA-IF to develop the research project EDEF – Enunciative Devices of the European Francophone Essay Film at Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University, of which this monograph is the final output.
