Veil the Transparent Vision: From Lacanian Registers to the Images of Chantal Akerman

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10.2991/978-2-38476-214-9_69How to use a DOI?

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Chantal Akerman; Jaques Lacan; Gaze; Register Theory; Space

Abstract

onsidering the preference to Chantal Akerman for a frontal gaze at the body images in her films, yet few papers have been adequate for fully grasping the value of Akerman’s cinematic images through carrying out analyses to this undifferentiated basic movement. The paper therefore chooses to introduce Lacanian framework concerning the content of the visual image to review the great female author’s expressions of visual perception in distinct spatial scales of her typical works; and furthermore to argue that how the concepts of the nature, the imaginary, the symbolic and the real, reflected in featured space, matter the structure of the viewer’s gaze that inside and outside the screen. With reference to the already established spatial margins, my aim is to explore the fundamental opposition between the inner and outer realms, as well as those unceasing encounters from the nature to order during the construction of meaning induced by the acts of gaze and look in Akerman’s films. Following the inspiration the filmmaker has been brought, I also extend the link between seeing and being seen reasoned therein, into a wider context of our own embodiment.

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AU  - Boyang Wei
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DA  - 2024/02/21
TI  - Veil the Transparent Vision: From Lacanian Registers to the Images of Chantal Akerman
BT  - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Education, Language and Art (ICELA 2023)
PB  - Atlantis Press
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