Book chapter
Unshackling the Ocean: Screening Trauma and Memory in Guy Deslauriers’s Passage du milieu ~The Middle Passage
Celluloid Chains, pp.121-146
University of Tennessee Press
2018
Abstract
When Guy Deslauriers’s documentary Passage du milieu [The Middle Passage] came out in 1999, some critics¹ praised the stylization of the film, the remarkable voice-over narration that accompanies a series of staccato, blurred images in slow motion. Yet, other critics² questioned Deslauriers’s choice to proceed with what they perceived as over-stylized and over-poeticized dramatic images of slavery. However, people have generally wondered about the message proposed by the film, and have more precisely raised the question of the manner in which the tragedies surrounding slavery and the slave trade should have been adapted for the cinema.
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Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Unshackling the Ocean: Screening Trauma and Memory in Guy Deslauriers’s Passage du milieu ~The Middle Passage
- Creators
- Anny Dominique Curtius
- Contributors
- Rudyard J. Alcocer (Editor)Kristen Block (Editor)Dawn Duke (Editor)
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Publication Details
- Celluloid Chains, pp.121-146
- Publisher
- University of Tennessee Press; Knoxville
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 2018
- Academic Unit
- International Programs; French and Italian
- Record Identifier
- 9984801616102771
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