Nostalgia and La Jete

Contemporaneity: historical presence in visual culture

Karla Huebner

关键词: film;    cinema;    Chris Marker;    memory;    nostalgia;    trauma;    lived experience;    repetition;   

DOI  :  10.5195/contemp.2015.132

学科分类：农业科学（综合）

来源: University of Pittsburgh * University Library System

【 摘 要 】

This essay contemplates Chris Marker filmLa Jete(1962) via Svetlana Boym conceptualization of estorative?versus eflective?nostalgia. It looks in part at the film presentation of the protagonist restorative nostalgia, but unlike previous examinations of nostalgia role inLa Jete,this essay foregrounds the viewerown experience of a reflective nostalgia for the film. The author considers her personal and subjective, and historically specific, encounters withLa Jetein relation to how the film may produce a similar nostalgia in others through its storytelling and unusual combination of photographic and cinematic form. Drawing also on Rda Bensmaa semiotic and psychoanalytic analysis of the film ictogrammatic?quality, the essay further considers the possible roles of trauma and masochism in the film and for its viewers, and relates the experience of watchingLa Jeteto that of watchingAn Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge(also 1962). The essay therefore situates both films in the context of historically situated yet ever-changing lived experience.

【 授权许可】

CC BY