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- Title
Toward a Sovereign Cinema: Georges Bataille's "Hiroshima mon amour."
- Authors
Reynolds, Anthony
- Abstract
The author reflects on the role of George Bataille's in the conception and production of the film "Hiroshima mon amour." The author also opines that this film inaugurates a sovereign cinema. He also cites Bataille's criticism of a 1946 book titled "Hiroshima" where he said Bataille praised the book's author for a heroic recuperation of the subject matter Hiroshima. The article also discusses animal sensibility and sovereign sensibility.
- Subjects
BATAILLE, Georges, 1897-1962; HIROSHIMA mon amour (Film); MOTION pictures; CRITICISM; HIROSHIMA (Book)
- Publication
Literature Film Quarterly, 2010, Vol 38, Issue 4, p311
- ISSN
0090-4260
- Publication type
Article