Selected Readings of Modern & Contemporary Literary Theories Example 2: “Mindscape” Jacques...

Selected Readings of Modern &

Contemporary Literary Theories Example 2:

“Mindscape” Jacques Drouin 1976, 7 min 31 sec

Starting Questions (1) Meanings? the use of symbols (e.g.

nature, garden, town house, toys, clock, fire and labyrinth)

Starting Questions (2)

Form and Content (1) pinscreen technique

blurs the boundaries between different objects and different scenes to show the function of the mind in remembering.

pinscreen technique

From the Natural to the Domestic

pinscreen technique (2)

Eyes and Doors as entrances into the mind

More Questions (3)

Form and Content (2): How is the beginning and ending similar to and/or different from each other?  How do they show about the artist's present life?  Quiet and comfortable?  Isolated in a cold environment?

Form and Content (3): Why does the painting also look like a window?  How come landscape painting can be related to "mindscape"? Do our memories have frames?

Close Analysis: the painting at the beginning

Close Analysis: the painting at the end

Close Analysis: the painting at the end (2)

More Questions

Can we read this animation as an overcoming of trauma?

What ideologies can we find in the text?

What discourses can it be placed in? (Social/Historical Contexts –Omitted t

his time.)