Chantal Akerman: Afterlives

Marion Schmid; Emma Wilson

Chantal Akerman
Afterlives

Edited by Marion Schmid and Emma Wilson

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Chantal Akerman (1950-2015), Belgian film-maker

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Moving Image 9

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23 April 2019 • 184pp

ISBN: 978-1-781886-39-7 (hardback) • RRP £80, $110, €95

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Chantal Akerman was one of the most significant directors of our times. A radical innovator of cinematic forms, she was at the forefront of feminist and women’s filmmaking. In the 1990s, she developed an important installation practice and began to experiment with self-writing.

Focusing on Akerman’s works of the last two decades, a period during which she diversified her creative practice, this collection traces her artistic trajectory across different media. From her documentaries ‘bordering on fiction’ to her final installation, NOW, the volume elucidates the thematic and aesthetic concerns of the later works, placing particular emphasis on self-portraiture, the exploration of intimacy, and the treatment of trauma, memory and exile. It also attends to the aural and visual textures that underpin her art. Drawing on a wide range of theoretical approaches as well as engaging more creatively with Akerman’s work, the essays provide a new optic for understanding this deeply personal, prescient oeuvre.

Marion Schmid is Professor of French Literature and Film at the University of Edinburgh. Emma Wilson is Professor of French Literature and the Visual Arts at the University of Cambridge.

Reviews:

‘What I like in Schmid and Wilson’s book is the breadth of content it offers. It is not a book about the “usual” subjects we speak about in the context of Akerman’s cinema. There is work on the director’s installations; there is work on, yes, ageing and smoking; there is work on what Albertine Fox calls “vocal landscapes”; and there is also work on Akerman’s use of light in Cyril Béghin’s excellent chapter Light out of Joint.’ — Nadin Mai, The Art(s) of Slow Cinema 5 July 2019
‘Afterlives is an array of incredibly rich, beautiful, creative, and often deeply emotional responses to filmmaker, writer and artist Chantal Akerman's later works, looking with much needed detail attention to the final two decades of Akerman's creative output.’ — Ros Murray, Modern and Contemporary France 28.1, 2019, 175-76 (full text online)
‘Together these essays resonate as similar tropes, films, and installations recur in new configurations. It is a testament to the artist, and to the editors, that new thought continues to illuminate Akerman’s oeuvre.’ — Ivone Margulies, H-France 20, May 2018, no. 66
‘The diverse theoretical frameworks utilized in the essays allow for interdisciplinary discussions of Akerman’s oeuvre and propose new approaches for film studies. Elegantly written, this publication will interest scholars of European cinema, documentaries, multimedia art, cinematic adaptations of nineteenth-century literature, cultural memory, and the Holocaust.’ — Tessa Nunn, French Review 94.4, May 2021, 274-75 (full text online)

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i-vi	Chantal Akerman: Chantal Akerman Marion Schmid, Emma Wilson doi:10.2307/j.ctv16km0vw.1	Cite
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vii-viii	Table of Contents Marion Schmid, Emma Wilson doi:10.2307/j.ctv16km0vw.2	Cite
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ix-ix	Acknowledgements E. W., M. S. doi:10.2307/j.ctv16km0vw.3	Cite
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x-x	List of Illustrations Marion Schmid, Emma Wilson doi:10.2307/j.ctv16km0vw.4	Cite
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xi-xiv	Notes On the Contributors Marion Schmid, Emma Wilson doi:10.2307/j.ctv16km0vw.5	Cite
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1-6	Introduction Marion Schmid, Emma Wilson doi:10.2307/j.ctv16km0vw.6	Cite
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7-12	in Memory of Chantal Akerman: Passages Through Time and Space Giuliana Bruno doi:10.2307/j.ctv16km0vw.7	Cite
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13-25	Chapter 1 A Tree in the Wind: Chantal Akerman’s Later Self-Portraits in Installation and Film Sandy Flitterman-Lewis doi:10.2307/j.ctv16km0vw.8	Cite
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26-40	Chapter 2 Moeder, Maman, Mom Carol Mavor doi:10.2307/j.ctv16km0vw.9	Cite
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41-53	Chapter 3 Smokescreens: Notes On Cigarettes in Chantal Akerman Alice Blackhurst doi:10.2307/j.ctv16km0vw.10	Cite
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54-65	Chapter 4 Ageless: Akerman’s Avatars Jenny Chamarette doi:10.2307/j.ctv16km0vw.11	Cite
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66-76	Chapter 5 Real Estates: the Comedy of Spaces and Things in Chantal Akerman’s Demain On Déménage Hilde D’haeyere, Steven Jacobs doi:10.2307/j.ctv16km0vw.12	Cite
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77-89	Chapter 6 Diaries, Thresholds and Gazes As Anamnesis in Chantal Akerman’s Cinema Anat Zanger doi:10.2307/j.ctv16km0vw.13	Cite
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90-101	Chapter 7 Unknown Deaths in La Captive Emma Wilson doi:10.2307/j.ctv16km0vw.14	Cite
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102-114	Chapter 8 Texas (is Not Paris) Is Burning: the Drag of Dis/orientation in Chantal Akerman’s Sud So Mayer doi:10.2307/j.ctv16km0vw.15	Cite
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115-126	Chapter 9 Vocal Landscapes: Framing Mutable Stories in De L’autre Côté (2002) and Une Voix Dans Le Désert (2002) Albertine Fox doi:10.2307/j.ctv16km0vw.16	Cite
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127-138	Chapter 10 ‘Like A Musical Piece’: Akerman and Musicality Adam Roberts doi:10.2307/j.ctv16km0vw.17	Cite
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139-149	Chapter 11 Light Out of Joint Cyril Béghin doi:10.2307/j.ctv16km0vw.18	Cite
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150-163	Chapter 12 Chantal Akerman: Filmmaker, Video Artist, Writer Marion Schmid doi:10.2307/j.ctv16km0vw.19	Cite
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164-166	Works By Chantal Akerman Marion Schmid, Emma Wilson doi:10.2307/j.ctv16km0vw.20	Cite
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167-167	Select Bibliography of Works On Chantal Akerman Marion Schmid, Emma Wilson doi:10.2307/j.ctv16km0vw.21	Cite
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168-170	Index Marion Schmid, Emma Wilson doi:10.2307/j.ctv16km0vw.22	Cite
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Chantal AkermanAfterlives

Edited by Marion Schmid and Emma Wilson

Chantal Akerman
Afterlives