Beyond High Theories of Intimacy
Beyond High Theories of Intimacy
Authorship, Performance, and “Obscenity” in The Piano Teacher
Chapter 10 explores the ways in which intertexuality within and between the stages of writing, directing, and performing the film The Piano Teacher create a multi-authored text. In the absence of an ethnography of production impossible for films made in the past, the authors devised a “soft ethnography” approach focused on some key players in this “multiply authored” semiotic model (namely, the prize-winning author, director, and lead actor) to suggest the flow and feedback between these different “signatures” in the text. This soft ethnography is grounded in knowledge of the writer’s discursive history and politics, the director’s television/film sense of liberation via “obscene” cinema, and the actor’s “directing” (via her construction of character) through her performance as a developing part of her star persona. These personal/public negotiations are symptomatic of the reflexive “synthesize and extend” interdisciplinary approach of Real Sex Cinema.
Keywords: soft ethnography, intimacy, reflexivity, authorship, Michael Haneke, Isabelle Huppert, Elfriede Jelinek, ethnography of production, obscene cinema
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