Film Studies Publications
Title
Fragments of a Life: Becoming-music/woman in Krzysztof Kieslowski's Trois couleurs: bleu
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
9-2008
Volume
8
Issue
3
Journal
Studies in French Cinema
First Page
277
URL with Digital Object Identifier
http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/sfc.8.3.277_1
Last Page
287
Abstract
This paper suggests a new methodology for the analysis of film music that draws upon the philosophical concepts of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, and applies them to an analysis of Zbigniew Preisner's score for Krzysztof Kieslowski's Trois couleurs: bleu (1993). It is my contention that many film music analyses fail because of the lack of a common theoretical vocabulary between film and music theories. As a way of overcoming this methodological gap, I will employ the Deleuzian concepts of becoming-animal/woman/music and molarization/molecularization in order to create a methodological bridge between the two disciplines. In so doing, I will demonstrate that the score, narrative and mise-en-scène interact on a level that is not only complete, but more fully integrated than previously thought.
Notes
Dr. Gregg Redner is currently a faculty member at The University of Western Ontario.