Sparks Fly: Mediated gesture, affect, and mise en scène in CAROL

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  • Jennifer M. Barker

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https://doi.org/10.17169/mae.2017.66

Abstract

This close reading of Todd Haynes’ film CAROL (USA, 2015) traces the ways in which the complexity of the relationship between the two lead characters is rendered through the material elements of the mise-en-scène, of the interplay of objects and gestures. It shows how these objects and gestures are not just “mere” metaphors for the romantic melodrama of two women but that they initiate affective movements that shape the emotional and sociohistorical complexity of their relationship.

Author Biography

Jennifer M. Barker

Jennifer M. Barker is Associate Professor of Communication at Georgia State University, USA. She is the Director of Graduate Studies for the Moving Image Studies' doctoral program and of the Film, Video, and Digital Image masters program. Her research interests include cinema and the senses, synaesthesia, theories of spectatorship and embodiment, performance, feminism, as well as documentary.

Metaphor in the Arts, in Media and Communication

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2017-11-28

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Barker, J. M. (2017). Sparks Fly: Mediated gesture, affect, and mise en scène in CAROL. Mediaesthetics – Journal of Poetics of Audiovisual Images, (2). https://doi.org/10.17169/mae.2017.66

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No. 2 (2017): Metaphor in the Arts, in Media and Communication

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