{"product_id":"black-and-blue-the-bruising-passion-of-camera-lucida-la-jete-sans-soleil-and-hiroshima-mon-amour-9780822352716","title":"Black and Blue: The Bruising Passion of Camera Lucida, La Jete, Sans Soleil, and Hiroshima Mon Amour","description":"Audacious and genre-defying, \u003ci\u003eBlack and Blue\u003c\/i\u003e is steeped in melancholy, in the feeling of being blue, or, rather, black and blue, with all the literality of bruised flesh. Roland Barthes and Marcel Proust are inspirations for and subjects of Carol Mavor's exquisite, image-filled rumination on efforts to capture fleeting moments and to comprehend the incomprehensible. At the book's heart are one book and three films--Roland Barthes's \u003ci\u003eCamera Lucida\u003c\/i\u003e, Chris Marker's \u003ci\u003eLa Jet?e\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSans soleil\u003c\/i\u003e, and Marguerite Duras's and Alain Resnais's \u003ci\u003eHiroshima mon amour\u003c\/i\u003e--postwar French works that register disturbing truths about loss and regret, and violence and history, through aesthetic refinement.\u003cp\u003ePersonal recollections punctuate Mavor's dazzling interpretations of these and many other works of art and criticism. Childhood memories become Proust's \"small-scale contrivances,\" tiny sensations that open onto panoramas. Mavor's mother lost her memory to Alzheimer's, and \u003ci\u003eBlack and Blue\u003c\/i\u003e is framed by the author's memories of her mother and effort to understand what it means to not be recognized by one to whom you were once so known.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCarol Mavor is Professor of Art History and Visual Studies at the University of Manchester. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eReading Boyishly: Roland Barthes, J. M. Barrie, Jacques Henri Lartigue, Marcel Proust, and D. W. Winnicott\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eBecoming: The Photographs of Clementina Viscountess Hawarden\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003ePleasures Taken: Performances of Sexuality and Loss in Victorian Photographs\u003c\/i\u003e, all also published by Duke University Press.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50413513900306,"sku":"9780822352716","price":35.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_1aa6dab0-b184-4c30-9c1a-afa63ef2aa3a.jpg?v=1729354834","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/black-and-blue-the-bruising-passion-of-camera-lucida-la-jete-sans-soleil-and-hiroshima-mon-amour-9780822352716","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}