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Art-cinema, Cultural Dislocation, and the Entry into Puberty: Vigil (Vincent Ward, 1984)
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This chapter explores how Vincent Ward exploits a characteristic coming-of-age story as a vehicle for addressing cultural dislocation on one hand, and Oedipal tensions and ambivalent attachments on the other, so that these personal issues are turned into a paradigmatic exemplification of a more general predicament faced by settlers living in a postcolonial situation. Ward’s use of techniques imitated from European art cinema is examined, along with the origins of the film in Ward’s own biography.
Title: Art-cinema, Cultural Dislocation, and the Entry into Puberty: Vigil (Vincent Ward, 1984)
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This chapter explores how Vincent Ward exploits a characteristic coming-of-age story as a vehicle for addressing cultural dislocation on one hand, and Oedipal tensions and ambivalent attachments on the other, so that these personal issues are turned into a paradigmatic exemplification of a more general predicament faced by settlers living in a postcolonial situation.
Ward’s use of techniques imitated from European art cinema is examined, along with the origins of the film in Ward’s own biography.
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