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- Title
The Politics of Intimacy in Hanif Kureishi's Films and Fiction.
- Authors
Cone, Annabelle
- Abstract
This article examines the politics of intimacy in Hanif Kureishi's films, plays, novels and novellas. Author, playwright and screenwriter Kureishi navigates freely between the written genre and the filmed genre, from screenplay to film or novel to television, finding his written works often translated to the big screen. His writing, especially in novel or short story form, has a visual quality that transcends the separation between the written word and the filmed frame. In fact Kureishi's narratives tend to float seamlessly in a postmodern, postcolonial aesthetic, mixing a linguistic and visual cocktail that includes humor and seriousness, references to high culture and lowbrow culture, with a dash of raw sex, poured into characters, who intoxicated and frustrated at the same time, possess a common trait: they are always attempting to live life this intensely. The most confounding moments in Kureishi's works are probably the most intimate ones, when a couple is communicating through touch, from the gentle kiss to a more erotic embrace. Furthermore, this intimate contact often takes place in typically impersonal environments. In Patrice Chereau's loosely based film adaptation of the novella Intimacy, a man and a woman share very intense physical moments that make their Wednesday encounters verge on the edge of soft porn.
- Subjects
KUREISHI, Hanif; AUTHORS; INTIMACY (Psychology) in literature; FILM adaptations; INTIMACY (Book)
- Publication
Literature Film Quarterly, 2004, Vol 32, Issue 4, p261
- ISSN
0090-4260
- Publication type
Article