Hiroshima mon amour has beautifully converted the intricate the emotional and psychological problems of its protagonist on the celluloid. The graphics have been enabled by the Alain Resnais to epitomize the psychological complexity verbal expressions hardly explain. The movie provides the “visual exploration of Riva’s attempts to come to terms with her memories and her …
Most of the shots in Hiroshima are from Lui’s “gaze”. Resnais employs intra-diegetic gaze, where one character is looking at another character. Even when he is speaking, we do not see Lui much. We see his naked back as Elle embraces him in bed. Entire conversations ensue while she digs her nails into his back. …
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For this assignment, I am taking a structuralistic, feministic and psychoanalytic reading of the film Hiroshima mon Amour. Hiroshima mon Amour was written by Marguerite Duras and directed by Alain Resnais in 1959. Marguerite Duras was nominated for an Academy Award Oscar – Best Writing, Story and Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen. Alain Resnais …
The book Hiroshima is by John Hersey and was written in 1946. It is an important book because of the history it records and the accounts of the people who were actually there. It is important the human element is not forgotten in this event. Pictures of the mushroom cloud made by the bomb have …
