Journal article

The Roaming Speech of Bodies

Practicing Cinema among Minorities

Pages 135 to 143

Cite this article


  • Houba, P.
(2003). The Roaming Speech of Bodies Practicing Cinema Among Minorities. Multitudes, No 11(1), 135-143. https://doi.org/10.3917/mult.011.0135.

  • Houba, Pascal.
« The Roaming Speech of Bodies : Practicing Cinema among Minorities ». Multitudes, 2003/1 No 11, 2003. p.135-143. CAIRN.INFO, shs.cairn.info/journal-multitudes-2003-1-page-135?lang=en.

  • HOUBA, Pascal,
2003. The Roaming Speech of Bodies Practicing Cinema among Minorities. Multitudes, 2003/1 No 11, p.135-143. DOI : 10.3917/mult.011.0135. URL : https://shs.cairn.info/journal-multitudes-2003-1-page-135?lang=en.

https://doi.org/10.3917/mult.011.0135


English

In this paper we review certain cinematographic practices which, by inscribing a becoming minor into the production and reception of films, attest to a resistance to normalisation. We pay special attention to the ways in which problems of representing the minor and transmitting their experiences have been addressed in the works of Dardenne and in Pasolini’s poetic cinema. Each of these filmmakers have developed a true “minor cinema” where the body, by taking over language, becomes problematic.

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