Resnais, Alain

This dissertation is a study of French literature and cinema produced during the Algerian War (1954-62). First, I argue that French society's apathetic response to its Army's crimes in Algeria should be interpreted as a crisis of witnessing, or a pervasive denial. Then, I sugges…

This dissertation is a rhetorical study of the critical reception of the French film Hiroshima mon amour (1959; dir.: Alain Resnais; screenplay: Marguerite Duras). My main argument is that the themes of love and technology followed a dialectical progression in the critical recep…

This dissertation argues that modernists like Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot, and Alain Resnais construct literary and filmic works that rely on interruptions and elliptical narration to gesture towards an aesthetics of modernity that counters the interest in monoliths concurrently…