Six Films
MIT Press · Paperback · October 21, 2025
The English-language debut of a beautiful and beguiling cycle of experimental texts by the legendary Marguerite Duras.
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- Who it’s for
- Film narration becomes prose poems and monologues, with images receding into text.
- Themes
- Self-identity, Personal relationships, Colonialism
- Genres
- French Literary Collections, Film & Video Art, Women Authors Collections
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The English-language debut of a beautiful and beguiling cycle of experimental texts by the legendary Marguerite Duras. In the late 1970s, Marguerite Duras embarked on an experimental journey to expand the boundaries of writing and film. For Duras, writing need not be text on a page nor cinema merely images on a screen. Six Films is the result of her efforts to redefine the two arts in order to create a hybrid work.
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Taking narration, voiceovers, and dialogue from six of her films, Duras re-envisions them as extended prose poems and monologues, tangling with self-identity, personal relationships, colonialism, and expression as the celluoid images recede and the text becomes the film itself. Now available for the first time in English, Six Films is a document of an artist at the apex of her creative prowess.
Film Into Prose
Film narration becomes prose poems and monologues, with images receding into text.
Come here for
- Extended prose poems
- Monologues drawn from six films
Expect
- Self-identity
- Personal relationships
Where it sits
| Film & Video Art | 39% |
|---|---|
| Women Authors Collections | 39% |
| French Literary Collections | 32% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Art Criticism & Ideas
- French Literary Collections
- Film History
- Authors
- Marguerite Duras
- Publisher
- MIT Press
- Published
- October 21, 2025
- Format
- Paperback
- Theme
- Self-identity · Personal relationships · Colonialism
- Reading lane
- Art Criticism & Ideas