Frappez sans entrer (Diplom)

  • er Vorspann als verkürzte und verdichtete Ouvertüre in Filmen von Jean-Luc Godard
Diploma Thesis

Author

Isabella Kohout

Location, Date

Universität für angewandte Kunst in Wien, Wien, Österreich, 31 January 2019

Keywords

Vorspann, Film, Jean-Luc Godard

Text

This thesis examines whether – and if so, to what extent – the opening credits of three selected films by the French director Jean-Luc Godard already provide information about the actual plot of the film. The following films are used for analysis: Le Mépris (1963), Une femme est une femme (1961) and Pierrot le fou (1964). The method of analysis is inspired by psychoanalytic film theory, which originated in France in the 1970s and in turn borrowed from the psychoanalytic work of Sigmund Freud – especially The Interpreation of Dreams (1899) – and those of Jacques Lacan. Two articles ("Le travail du film 1" and "Le travail du film 2") by the French artist and film theorist Thierry Kuntzel, who analyses the first shot in relation to the first sequence and the first sequence in relation to the rest of the film, are particularly used as an inspiration for this thesis. Like Kuntzel, I also work with (audio-)visual signifiers, which can be found in the opening credits, in order to examine these signifiers in the sense of the terms condensation and displacement or metaphor and metonymy, coined by Freud and Lacan, and analyse it in the "main film". (AutorInnenkurzreferat)

Language, Format, Material, Edition

German

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Location

Address

  • Universität für angewandte Kunst in Wien, Wien, Österreich
  • Oskar-Kokoschka-Platz 2
  • 1010 Wien
  • Österreich
Published By: Gabriele Jutz | Universität für Angewandte Kunst Wien | Publication Date: 09 May 2022, 10:18 | Edit Date: 05 November 2023, 13:25