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- Title
CHAPTER 11: Formal Innovation and Cinematic Imagination in Caryl Phillips's Dancing in the Dark.
- Authors
Su Ping
- Abstract
Caryl Phillips has repeatedly expressed his strong interest in formal experimentation and innovation. His inventive formal strategies have been greatly inspired by his rich experience in scriptwriting for theatre, film, and television. In this chapter, I analyse the filmic features in Dancing in the Dark (2005) and examine how images are created by words; how the narrative structure, order and voices are disrupted through using filmmaking techniques; how the rhyme and rhythm of language create a musicality that further strengthens the visual effects. I argue that by applying cinematic strategies in Dancing in the Dark, Phillips breaks through the traditional narrative pattern, constructs the protagonist Bert Williams's life in a concrete and lively way, and creates multiple perspectives for readers to view him. Yet despite all these efforts to get access to Bert Williams, he ultimately remains an enigmatic figure.
- Subjects
PHILLIPS, Caryl; DANCING in the Dark (Book : Phillips); IMAGINATION; FILMMAKING; NARRATION in motion pictures
- Publication
Cross / Cultures: Readings in the Post / Colonial Literatures in English, 2023, Vol 220, p226
- ISSN
0924-1426
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1163/9789004545557_013