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Entering into the Video: The Female Body, the Film Body, and the Self-Portrait Tuesday, October 24
Prof. Wilkens’ research focuses on self-representation
and reflexivity in the works of contemporary French women artists.
Her talk will focus on the inclusion of the videographer’s
own body in Agnès Varda’s Les glaneurs et la glaneuse
and Dominique Cabrera’s Demain et encore demain. By videotaping
their own hands, their own images in a mirror, or themselves
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Professor
Cybelle McFadden Wilkens received her PhD from Duke University and
taught at Georgia Institute of Technology before coming to Macalester.
She has published articles on Monique Wittig and Sophie Calle and
is currently working on an edited collection on female bodily visibility
in French and Francophone literature.
directly in front of the camera, Varda and Cabrera in different
ways alter meaning associated with the female body. They provide
excellent examples of forms of expression that help us think about
representation of the female body in new ways.|
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