The immodest eye : liminality and the gaze in Joseph Strick’s The balcony

In this thesis, I discuss Joseph Strick’s 1 963 film adaptation of Jean Genet’s Le balcon. Like the play, The Balcony emphasizes illusion, masquerade, pretence, mirrors; my thesis echoes Genet’s language as it constructs a framework out of the extended metaphor of the mirror. Chapter one charts...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Burns, John
Format: Others
Language:English
Published: 2009
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/5190