Michelle Royer (Book order)

Michelle Royer Book order

Michelle Royer is a professor of French and Francophone studies at the University of Sydney, specializing in French cinema. Her research centers on 20th and 21st-century film, focusing on French socio-political cinema and the work of French female filmmakers. She delves deeply into the cinema of Marguerite Duras and French feminist thought. Royer has published extensively on French female filmmakers and on star studies within French cinema.

Marguerite Duras

128 pages
5 hours of reading

The writer Marguerite Duras was a key figure in post-war French cinema, pioneering innovations such as the disjunction of film and image, and the primacy given to voices, silence and music. Her multisensorial approach opened up new spaces for the female experience to be expressed. Although she worked with some of the best French visual technicians and musicians of her time, critiques have often neglected the visual and sonic aesthetics of her films, and their effects on spectators. Drawing on theories of embodiment and spectatorship, this book analyses the tactility and multisensoriality of Duras' films, and how they relate to her female-centred perspective.