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Staging the generic self : Céline Sciamma’s autofictional praxis
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Harrod, Mary (2023) Staging the generic self : Céline Sciamma’s autofictional praxis. French Screen Studies, 23 (2-3). pp. 212-230. doi:10.1080/26438941.2022.2149171 ISSN 2643-895X.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/26438941.2022.2149171
Abstract
Céline Sciamma’s uniquely positioned work and public identity present a number of apparent contradictions – especially when considered in the context of French female authorship. After briefly analysing these, this article elaborates its central thesis: that the aporias surrounding Sciamma’s authorship, as manifested primarily in her films and secondarily in parafilmic publications and discourses, may be partially resolved by considering relevant artefacts through the prism of autofiction. Sciamma’s latest film Petite Maman can be seen as the fullest expression yet of a self-narrating tendency that, however, close analysis reveals to inform her earlier films as well. Finally, the article argues that such a perspective chimes with considering Sciamma’s work as formally queer and thus politically significant in ways that exceed questions of identity politics without merely bowing to Republican universalism.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Subjects: | P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General) > PN1993 Motion Pictures | ||||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > School of Modern Languages and Cultures | ||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Petite maman -- History and criticism, Autobiographical fiction, French -- History and criticism, French fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism, Sciamma, Céline, -- 1980- -- Criticism and interpretation, Feminism and motion pictures, Women motion picture producers and directors, Queer theory, Motion pictures, French | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | French Screen Studies | ||||||||
Publisher: | Informa UK Limited | ||||||||
ISSN: | 2643-895X | ||||||||
Official Date: | 2023 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 23 | ||||||||
Number: | 2-3 | ||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 212-230 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1080/26438941.2022.2149171 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||||
Description: | Special Issue on Celine Sciamma, edited by Frances Smith. |
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Date of first compliant deposit: | 4 November 2022 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 21 December 2022 | ||||||||
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