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The film script is a challenging entity for criticism. Its destiny is to disappear, its function to contribute to the production of a screen of image, music, and voice, behind which it dissolves and is forgotten. Film scripts are in principle not meant to be read. Nor are they meant to be inscribed directly into our archives and libraries. They are transient and ‘functional’.
Keywords: Eclipses; Semprún, Jorge; Resnais, Alain; Film scripts; Screenwriting; Scenarios; Cinematography; Wholeness
Rights: © by the author(s). This version is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
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Beginnings: Constituting Wholes, Haunting, Plasticity / Manuele Gragnolati, Christoph F. E. Holzhey
Sexual Ghosts and the Whole of History: Queer Historiography, Post-Slavery Subjectivities, and Sadomasochism in Isaac Julien’s The Attendant / Volker Woltersdorff
Things I Learned from the Book of Ruth: Diasporic Reading of Queer Conversions / Ruth Preser
Claims of Existence between Biopolitics and Thanatopolitics / Eirini Avramopoulou
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Hegel and the Ad-venture of the Totality / Jamila M.H. Mascat
The Innate Plasticity of Bodies and Minds: Integrating Models of Genetic Determination and Environmental Formation / Robert Meunier, Valentine Reynaud
Pumping Honey: Joseph Beuys at the documenta 6 / Arnd Wedemeyer
An Eclipse of the Screen: Jorge Semprún’s Scripts for Alain Resnais
[Backmatter] /
Title
An Eclipse of the Screen
Subtitle
Jorge Semprún’s Scripts for Alain Resnais
Author(s)
Marcus Coelen
Identifier
https://doi.org/10.37050/ci-11_10
Description
The film script is a challenging entity for criticism. Its destiny is to disappear, its function to contribute to the production of a screen of image, music, and voice, behind which it dissolves and is forgotten. Film scripts are in principle not meant to be read. Nor are they meant to be inscribed directly into our archives and libraries. They are transient and ‘functional’.
Is Part Of
De/Constituting Wholes
Place
Vienna
Publisher
Turia + Kant
Date
2017
Subject
Eclipses
Semprún, Jorge
Resnais, Alain
Film scripts
Screenwriting
Scenarios
Cinematography
Wholeness
Rights
© by the author(s)
This version is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
Bibliographic Citation
Marcus Coelen, ‘An Eclipse of the Screen: Jorge Semprún’s Scripts for Alain Resnais’, in De/Constituting Wholes: Towards Partiality Without Parts, ed. by Christoph F. E. Holzhey and Manuele Gragnolati, Cultural Inquiry, 11 (Vienna: Turia + Kant, 2017), pp. 215–37 <https://doi.org/10.37050/ci-11_10>
Language
en-GB
page start
215
page end
237
Source
De/Constituting Wholes: Towards Partiality Without Parts, ed. by Christoph F. E. Holzhey and Manuele Gragnolati, Cultural Inquiry, 11 (Vienna: Turia + Kant, 2017), pp. 215–37
Format
application/pdf

References

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  • Freud, Sigmund, ‘Konstruktionen in der Analyse’ (1937), in Gesammelte Werke (Frankfurt a.M.: Fischer, 1950), xvi, pp. 41–56
  • Jankowski, Paul F., Stavisky: A Confidence Man in the Republic of Virtue (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2002)
  • Pays, Jean-Louis, ‘“Un film expérimental”, entretien avec Jorge Semprún’ (1966), in Positif, revue de cinéma, Alain Resnais, ed. by Stéphane Goudet (Paris: Gallimard, 2002), pp. 187–206
  • Riambau, Esteve, ‘The Clandestine Militant Who Would be Minister: Semprún and Cinema’, in A Critical Companion to Jorge Semprún: Buchenwald, Before and After, ed. by Ofelia Ferrán and Gina Herrmann (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), pp. 71–88
  • Semprún, Jorge, La Guerre est finie: scénario du film d’Alain Resnais (Paris: Gallimard, 1966)
  • Semprún, Jorge, Le ‘Stavisky’ d’Alain Resnais (Paris: Gallimard, 1974)
  • Semprún, Jorge, L’écriture ou la vie (1994), in Le fer rouge de la mémoire (Paris: Gallimard, 2012)
  • Semprún, Jorge, Literature or Life, trans. by Linda Coverdale (London: Penguin, 1998)

Cite as: Marcus Coelen, ‘An Eclipse of the Screen: Jorge Semprún’s Scripts for Alain Resnais’, in De/Constituting Wholes: Towards Partiality Without Parts, ed. by Christoph F. E. Holzhey and Manuele Gragnolati, Cultural Inquiry, 11 (Vienna: Turia + Kant, 2017), pp. 215–37 <https://doi.org/10.37050/ci-11_10>