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Under the Sign of Equality: Aesthetic democracy in Alain Resnais’ Hiroshima mon amour (1959)
| Summary: | In his analysis of modern fiction, Jacques Rancière challenges Roland Barthes’ classic study of the effect of reality in literature. Seeking to account for the political dimension involved in literary realism’s excessive descriptions, Rancière makes use of the term ‘equality effect’. Taking this concept into consideration, this article aims to examine the forms of realization of this ‘aesthetic democracy’ in the cinema of Alain Resnais. More specifically, it analyzes how the film Hiroshima mon amour (1959) gives rise to another division of the sensible by questioning the categorization of cinematographic genres and the hierarchy of the work’s themes. |
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| Main Authors: | Meneses Rodrigues, Isadora |
| Subject: | Efeito de igualdade Alain Resnais Hiroshima mon amour arte e política Equality effect Alain Resnais Hiroshima mon amour art and politics |
| Year: | 2021 |
| Country: | Portugal |
| Document type: | article |
| Access type: | unknown |
| Associated institution: | Associação de Investigadores da Imagem em Movimento |
| Language: | Portuguese |
| Origin: | Aniki : Revista Portuguesa da Imagem em Movimento |
| Summary: | In his analysis of modern fiction, Jacques Rancière challenges Roland Barthes’ classic study of the effect of reality in literature. Seeking to account for the political dimension involved in literary realism’s excessive descriptions, Rancière makes use of the term ‘equality effect’. Taking this concept into consideration, this article aims to examine the forms of realization of this ‘aesthetic democracy’ in the cinema of Alain Resnais. More specifically, it analyzes how the film Hiroshima mon amour (1959) gives rise to another division of the sensible by questioning the categorization of cinematographic genres and the hierarchy of the work’s themes. |
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