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In Deborah Levy’s novel Hot Milk, a prompt and careful preparation of a glass of water becomes a kind of hymn to the upholding of power relations, and their failures, between mother and daughter in Hot Milk. I will consider the importance of water in Levy’s work and the connections between film and philosophical discourses on water, liquidity, fluidity and the French feminist critiques of water (Luce Irigaray).
Here, I start to introduce a range of visual culture which resonates with Levy’s vivid, and existential, treatment of water, jellyfish, seabirds, mermaids, micro-organisms and female subjectivity. For example, I bring together Levy’s motif of swimming (Swimming Home, Hot Milk) with the drawings of Leanne Shapton (Swimming Stories) and the films of Celine Sciamma and Lucile Hadzihalilovic (Evolution, Innocence).
This seminar will explore the vivid correspondences between film and literature and the psychical and physical evocations in examples from a range of women’s literature and female-centred cinema.
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A limited number of bursary places are available for those under financial hardship. Bursary places will grant access to the live and recording access for £10. We will try to give away as many bursaries as we can, but priority will be given to UK unemployed and PIP/ESA claimants. Please apply here.
