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The Pillow Book and Cinema as Hybridity

In many ways, The Pillow Book can be read as a paradigm of hybrid movie making:

• The film works almost like an opera or theater performance done with digital and film techniques for representing historical and present "film time" narratives simultaneously.

• Greenaway sees cinema as the ultimate mixing platform: using film as a conceptual medium, he mixes all genres, and he he keeps the "high-tech" and "low tech" techniques visible in the film.

• Multiple narratives, interweaving history, memory, past and present cultural and sexual identities

• Use of digital editing, "picture in picture," multiple narrative frames to cut across time, points of view, memory, and simultaneous camera views of story

• Shock value of nudity on the edges of eroticism and de-sexualization-- more male nudity than female in the film.

• Conventions of black and white and color for symbolic associations

• Text, writing, inscribed body, and image combined with cinema and moving image

• Traditional, historical and contemporary music encode the images and visual narrative

• The cultural meanings of the male and female body, and the use of the body as a signifying vehicle: both the nude body as it signifies in culture, the sexualized body, the de-sexualized body, and the body as a surface for writing, encoding messages.

• Writing on the body becomes erotic, seduction, a personal fetish, a complex message, and a means of revenge.

• Writing on the body as seduction becomes means of revenge against the homosexual publisher: seen to have betrayed Nagiko's father and taken her current lover, Jerome. Calligraphy on the body as lover's revenge.

• Search for calligrapher-lover is quest for ultimate sexual relationship. Gender reversals in who is writing and who is written upon: who has more power--the writer or the one using the body to seduce and be written upon?

• Resonates with our deepest cultural metaphors about body, soul, writing as externalized speech and mind, "the word became flesh."

The Pillow Book and Cinema as Hybridity

In many ways, The Pillow Book can be read as a paradigm of hybrid movie making:

• The film works almost like an opera or theater performance done with digital and film techniques for representing historical and present "film time" narratives simultaneously.

• Greenaway sees cinema as the ultimate mixing platform: using film as a conceptual medium, he mixes all genres, and he he keeps the "high-tech" and "low tech" techniques visible in the film.

• Multiple narratives, interweaving history, memory, past and present cultural and sexual identities

• Use of digital editing, "picture in picture," multiple narrative frames to cut across time, points of view, memory, and simultaneous camera views of story

• Shock value of nudity on the edges of eroticism and de-sexualization-- more male nudity than female in the film.

• Conventions of black and white and color for symbolic associations

• Text, writing, inscribed body, and image combined with cinema and moving image

• Traditional, historical and contemporary music encode the images and visual narrative

• The cultural meanings of the male and female body, and the use of the body as a signifying vehicle: both the nude body as it signifies in culture, the sexualized body, the de-sexualized body, and the body as a surface for writing, encoding messages.

• Writing on the body becomes erotic, seduction, a personal fetish, a complex message, and a means of revenge.

• Writing on the body as seduction becomes means of revenge against the homosexual publisher: seen to have betrayed Nagiko's father and taken her current lover, Jerome. Calligraphy on the body as lover's revenge.

• Search for calligrapher-lover is quest for ultimate sexual relationship. Gender reversals in who is writing and who is written upon: who has more power--the writer or the one using the body to seduce and be written upon?

• Resonates with our deepest cultural metaphors about body, soul, writing as externalized speech and mind, "the word became flesh."

Zhang Huan: The Artist and the Body as Medium of Writing, Inscription, Cultural Codes

In this series of photographs, the artist has a face written over in stages until the face is black with ink and obliterated by the text.

Zhang Huan: The Artist and the Body as Medium of Writing, Inscription, Cultural Codes

In this series of photographs, the artist has a face written over in stages until the face is black with ink and obliterated by the text.