The eye of the camera and the rhetoric of the image

Christian Bonnet

Abstract

The article is based on an analytic clinical of adolescents mobilizing in film sessions. Next, the themes of memory and recollection in their Freudian aspects are classically considered; as well as the links and distances between Freud, cinema and psychoanalysis. The rhetoric (in the sense of Yates and Arasse) is articulated with the figuration to propose a classical connection in the structuralist field (Barthes, Foucault) between speech and cinema. The author proposes a specific articulation between rhetoric, aesthetics and political engagement in the cinema. The resources of the structural analysis of the narratives lead to propose a model of the narrative formulas of the theme of the struggles. Finally a singular opening is proposed by mobilizing the expression of the eye to the camera and linking it to the concept of film analysis of the look at the camera (Vernet) to propose the design of the look by the camera. This one would be an original modality, specific of the adolescent processes, as the adolescent exposes himself to the image which “looks at him” and especially the article indicates that: This look by the camera is tied to the transfer.

Key Words: Memory | Rhetoric | Ethics | Structural Analysis | Looking at the camera | Looking by the camera

This article is, for the time being, only available in Spanish: El ojo de la cámara y la retórica de la imagen and French: L’œil de la caméra et la rhétorique de l’image


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Volumen 8 | Nº 2

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