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strangers -Basic concepts: strangers witHout and witHin I shall start the next pair of chapters with a comment about film narratives rather than with a comment that is explicitly about Kristeva's concepts. Many a film narrative is built around encounters between strangers and those already 'in place'. In most of these narratives, 'the stranger comes to town'. The form of the stranger may vary: a new sheriff, a tourist, an immigrant, or an alien strain. The basic narrative, however -the narrative that the spectator expects -is one in which the stranger prompts a variety of emotions among the locals and sets in motion a series of changes in their lives. Those changes may be poised to occur, but the stranger is the catalyst. The two films that anchor the discussion in this chapter -Vigil and Crush -fall into this general category.In most stranger narratives also, the focus is upon the point of view of the local. As a rule, we learn little about the way the stranger, the outsider, sees or feels events, little about the ways in which the stranger is transformed. Nonetheless, there are stories -an increasing number it appears -which take the stranger's point of view: Mississippi Masala,

Publisher

Berghahn Books

Published

2022

Language

EN