Season 13 · 2 Dec 2024Evil, or the "unknowing" of the self- 56:34Suddenly, Last SummerA young woman makes sincere efforts to emerge from her traumatic amnesia, but a force within her prevents it.
Mankiewicz
Appears in 9 videos · 9 passages, 7 of them in depth.
What Dominique Pagani says
Dominique Pagani cites Mankiewicz almost exclusively for "Suddenly, Last Summer", a film he returns to from 2017 to 2024. He first recommends it for the way it shows trauma on screen1, then makes it an example of traumatic memory: the whole film hinges on a memory on the verge of returning, which immediately blurs2. He sees in it a ceaseless, "Sisyphean" effort of memory, thwarted by an effort not to remember3. The heroine collapses or freezes each time she comes close to the memory. From this he concludes that consciousness dreads its own end and that a force opposes knowledge4. He connects the film to the questions of amnesia, of self-"misknowledge" and of evil, as well as to "thoughts one does not think"56. In a session on the reconstruction of Nazism, he also mentions a Mankiewicz film that takes up Shakespeare's text word for word, without giving its title7.
- 1#2.7 Entre crise et guerre : Philosopher ?1 Aug 2017 · 20:41
- 2#2 Bien-et Mé-faits de l'amnésie...23 Oct 2020 · 55:11
- 39 #18 Le Crépuscule des dieux ou de la répétition à la libération3 Apr 2021 · 41:08
- 4#9 TABLEAUX D'UNE EXPOSITION : L'art, vu d'ici ou d'en face?10 Feb 2022 · 39:42
- 5La laïcité, vérité de la religion ?18 Feb 2024 · 1:48:01
- 6Le Mal ou la "déconnaissance" de soi2 Dec 2024 · 56:34
- 7#6.6 • La Logique du Sujet face à la reconstitution du nazisme29 Mar 2020 · 2:28
Summary produced automatically from 9 of the passages below, to be reviewed; the numbers link to the moment in the session.
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Who is this?Joseph Leo Mankiewicz ( MANG-kə-wits; February 11, 1909 – February 5, 1993) was an American filmmaker. A four-time Academy Award winner, he is best known for his witty and literate dialogue and his preference for voice-over narration and narrative flashbacks. Also known as an actor's director, Mankiewicz directed several prominent actors, including Bette Davis, Gene Tierney, Humphrey Bogart and Elizabeth Taylor, to several of their memorable onscreen performances. […]
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Season 13 · 2 Dec 2024Evil, or the "unknowing" of the self
Season 12 · 18 Feb 2024Secularism, the truth of religion?- 1:48:01Suddenly, Last SummerThe film shows a young woman unable to recover the memory of her brother's murder: thoughts one does not think.
Season 11 · 28 Sept 2022And what about the subject in all this? Hölderlin, Mallarmé and Baudelaire- 25:43Suddenly, Last SummerThe heroine approaches the memory of the trauma and blocks: a force opposes knowledge.
Season 10 · 10 Feb 2022#9 PICTURES AT AN EXHIBITION: Art, seen from here or from the other side?- 39:42Suddenly, Last SummerThe heroine collapses each time she approaches the memory: consciousness dreads its end.
Season 9.2 · 3 Apr 20219 #18 Twilight of the Gods, or from repetition to liberation- 41:08Suddenly, Last SummerThe film shows an incessant, Sisyphean effort of memory, thwarted by an effort not to remember.
Season 9.1 · 13 Nov 2020#4 Benefits and harms of amnesia...- 49:30Suddenly, Last SummerA traumatic memory is the key to the drama, and remembering it requires effort.
Season 9.1 · 23 Oct 2020#2 Benefits and harms of amnesia...- 55:11Suddenly, Last SummerThe whole film hinges on a memory on the verge of returning and becoming blurred.
Season 6 · 29 Mar 2020#6.6 • The Logic of the Subject in the face of the reconstitution of Nazism- 2:28A film that reproduces Shakespeare's text word for word.
Season 2 · 1 Aug 2017#2.7 Between crisis and war: Philosophising?- 20:41Suddenly, Last SummerFilm recommended for its treatment of trauma on screen.