Hearing the Lost Voices of the Community. Distance and Contact Zones in the St Kilda Movies

Hearing the Lost Voices of the Community. Distance and Contact Zones in the St Kilda Movies

This article examines how St Kilda was depicted in the only two fictional films about life on an island that has assumed mythical status since Martin Martin’s travel account (1698): Michael Powell’s The Edge of the World (1937) and Bill Bryden’s Ill Fares the Land (1983). After a presentation of St ...

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Autore principale: Laplace, Philippe
Natura: Article ou chapitre numérique
Lingua:Anglais
Pubblicazione: Études écossaises 2021
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St Kilda
Martin Martin
Michael Powell
striated fores (Deleuze and Guattari)
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spelling openedition-oai:revues.org:etudesecossaises_3596 https://doi.org/10.4000/etudesecossaises.3596 urn:doi:10.4000/etudesecossaises.3596 en https://journals.openedition.org/etudesecossaises/3596 2021-03-15T01:00:00Z info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess article info:eu-repo/semantics/article urn:handle:20.500.13089/g5vm All rights reserved Hearing the Lost Voices of the Community. Distance and Contact Zones in the St Kilda Movies Études écossaises UGA Éditions - Université Grenoble Alpes info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/1969-6337 info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/1240-1439 URI:https://journals.openedition.org/etudesecossaises Laplace, Philippe St Kilda Martin Martin Michael Powell striated fores (Deleuze and Guattari) This article examines how St Kilda was depicted in the only two fictional films about life on an island that has assumed mythical status since Martin Martin’s travel account (1698): Michael Powell’s The Edge of the World (1937) and Bill Bryden’s Ill Fares the Land (1983). After a presentation of St Kilda, I examine the artistic and ideological objectives of the directors. I then more specifically examine how both directors represent distance and how they present the irruption of what Deleuze and Guattari called striated forces. I describe in the following part the various contact zones where islanders and mainlanders meet in the two films. The notion of St Kilda’s lost voices is central to my article and allows us to see how these films tried to provide the St Kilda community with a means of expression.
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topic St Kilda
Martin Martin
Michael Powell
striated fores (Deleuze and Guattari)
spellingShingle St Kilda
Martin Martin
Michael Powell
striated fores (Deleuze and Guattari)
Laplace, Philippe
Hearing the Lost Voices of the Community. Distance and Contact Zones in the St Kilda Movies
description This article examines how St Kilda was depicted in the only two fictional films about life on an island that has assumed mythical status since Martin Martin’s travel account (1698): Michael Powell’s The Edge of the World (1937) and Bill Bryden’s Ill Fares the Land (1983). After a presentation of St Kilda, I examine the artistic and ideological objectives of the directors. I then more specifically examine how both directors represent distance and how they present the irruption of what Deleuze and Guattari called striated forces. I describe in the following part the various contact zones where islanders and mainlanders meet in the two films. The notion of St Kilda’s lost voices is central to my article and allows us to see how these films tried to provide the St Kilda community with a means of expression.
author Laplace, Philippe
author_facet Laplace, Philippe
author_sort Laplace, Philippe
title Hearing the Lost Voices of the Community. Distance and Contact Zones in the St Kilda Movies
title_short Hearing the Lost Voices of the Community. Distance and Contact Zones in the St Kilda Movies
title_full Hearing the Lost Voices of the Community. Distance and Contact Zones in the St Kilda Movies
title_fullStr Hearing the Lost Voices of the Community. Distance and Contact Zones in the St Kilda Movies
title_full_unstemmed Hearing the Lost Voices of the Community. Distance and Contact Zones in the St Kilda Movies
title_sort hearing the lost voices of the community. distance and contact zones in the st kilda movies
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