{"product_id":"quiet-pictures","title":"Quiet Pictures","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eQuiet Pictures\u003c\/i\u003e approaches the films of Joanna Hogg, Lynne Ramsay, Céline Sciamma, and Lucile Hadžhalilovicthrough the lens of silence as a motif and texture.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book takes up the question of different uses of silence in the work of these directors and how this creates a space for foregrounding innovative practices that establish new ways of looking, staring, and gazing. Sarah Artt discusses how the deliberate deployment of silence creates space for the formation of reciprocal gazes that counteract the typically gendered and binary ways in which women and femme-presenting people tend to be portrayed on screen. \u003ci\u003eQuiet Pictures\u003c\/i\u003e draws on the political legacy of feminist film theory to explore and conceptualise what it means to not just look back, but to share the gaze.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book discusses several films, including: \u003ci\u003eUnrelated \u003c\/i\u003e(Hogg, 2007), \u003ci\u003eArchipelago \u003c\/i\u003e(Hogg, 2010), \u003ci\u003eExhibition \u003c\/i\u003e(Hogg, 2013), \u003ci\u003eThe Souvenir Part I and II \u003c\/i\u003e(Hogg, 2019 and 2021), \u003ci\u003eMorvern Callar \u003c\/i\u003e(Ramsay, 2002), \u003ci\u003eWe Need to Talk About Kevin \u003c\/i\u003e(Ramsay, 2011), \u003ci\u003eInnocence \u003c\/i\u003e(Hadžhalilovic  2004), \u003ci\u003eEvolution \u003c\/i\u003e(Hadžhalilovic 2015),  \u003ci\u003eWaterlilies\/Naissance des Pieuvres \u003c\/i\u003e(Sciamma, 2007), \u003ci\u003eTomboy \u003c\/i\u003e(Sciamma, 2011)\u003ci\u003e, Girlhood\/Bande des Filles \u003c\/i\u003e(Sciamma, 2014), \u003ci\u003ePortrait of a Lady on Fire\/Portrait d’une jeune fille en feu \u003c\/i\u003e(Sciamma, 2019\u003ci\u003e)\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003ePetite Maman\/Little Mother \u003c\/i\u003e(Sciamma, 2021).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing Plc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54223733326168,"sku":"9781501347214","price":92.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781501347214_0791fab7-fed3-457f-b733-6a815a227197.jpg?v=1743666340","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/quiet-pictures","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}