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AccessType
Open Access Dissertation
Document Type
dissertation
Degree Name
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Degree Program
Comparative Literature
Year Degree Awarded
2017
Month Degree Awarded
February
First Advisor
Catherine Portuges
Second Advisor
James Hicks
Third Advisor
Anne Ciecko
Fourth Advisor
Boris Wolfson
Subject Categories
Comparative Literature
Abstract
Contemporary critical discussions of autobiographical cinema have linked the theory, practice, and poetics of autobiographical filmmaking to those of self-portraiture. A Poetics of Subtraction complicates the dominant theoretical framework by advocating for the relevance of sculpture and its attendant poetics in the interpretation of autobiographical films. Through a thorough examination of Hollis Frampton's (nostalgia) (1971), Andrei Tarkovsky's Зеркало (Mirror, 1975) and Tempo di viaggio (1983), and Mercedes Álvarez's El cielo gira (2004), this dissertation argues that an understanding of sculpture's processes and poetics is essential for grasping the methods, materials, and meanings of autobiographical films. In particular, the sculptural approach to autobiographical cinema reveals new ways to represent memory, history, identity, and time through film.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.7275/9231439.0
Recommended Citation
Joy, Alexander B., "A Poetics of Subtraction: The Autobiographical Films of Frampton, Tarkovsky, and Álvarez" (2017). Doctoral Dissertations. 883.
https://doi.org/10.7275/9231439.0
https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations_2/883