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Article: Sontag's erotics of film style: between meaning and presence.(Susan Sontag)(Critical essay)
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- January 1, 2007
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Susan Sontag's writings of the 1960s on film seem prescient in light of current trends in academic film study, where questions of aesthetics and style, after several decades of neglect, appear to be attracting new interest. (1) The interest takes form in contexts scarcely imaginable during the 1960s, the decade during which Sontag wrote and published the string of pathbreaking articles collected in Against Interpretation (1966). (2) All the same, chief themes in Sontag's film criticism--the emphasis on film's resistance to interpretive criticism, the elevation of concrete form over extrapolated meaning, the alternatives posited to the notion of film as representation, the ...
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