{"id":258,"date":"2021-04-05T20:09:12","date_gmt":"2021-04-05T20:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/bpp\/?p=258"},"modified":"2021-04-05T20:09:13","modified_gmt":"2021-04-05T20:09:13","slug":"video-essay-establishing-perspective-in-portrait-of-a-lady-on-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/bpp\/2021\/04\/05\/video-essay-establishing-perspective-in-portrait-of-a-lady-on-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"Video Essay: Establishing Perspective in &#8216;Portrait of a Lady on Fire&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/bpp\/files\/2021\/04\/portrait-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-259\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/bpp\/files\/2021\/04\/portrait-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/bpp\/files\/2021\/04\/portrait-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/bpp\/files\/2021\/04\/portrait-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/bpp\/files\/2021\/04\/portrait-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/bpp\/files\/2021\/04\/portrait.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><em>In her video essay on C\u00e9line Sciamma&#8217;s <\/em>Portrait of a Lady on Fire<em>, Praveena Javvadi details the visual logic of the film&#8217;s direction. This essay illustrates how, through her painterly, portrait-like shots, Sciamma subtly shifts between the perspectives of the two lead characters, Marianne (No\u00e9mie Merlant) and H\u00e9lo\u00efse (Ad\u00e8le Haenel<\/em>), <em>thereby guiding the audience to see the events of the story through their perspectives.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-embed-handler wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=RClQaRY2Ucc\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In her video essay on C\u00e9line Sciamma&#8217;s Portrait of a Lady on Fire, Praveena Javvadi details the visual logic of the film&#8217;s direction. This essay illustrates how, through her painterly, portrait-like shots, Sciamma subtly shifts between the perspectives of the two lead characters, Marianne (No\u00e9mie Merlant) and H\u00e9lo\u00efse (Ad\u00e8le Haenel), thereby guiding the audience to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":743,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[223009],"tags":[227605,209542],"class_list":{"0":"post-258","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-video-essays","7":"tag-celine-sciamma-2","8":"tag-portrait-of-a-lady-on-fire","9":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/bpp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/bpp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/bpp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/bpp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/743"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/bpp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/bpp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":262,"href":"https:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/bpp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258\/revisions\/262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/bpp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/bpp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/bpp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}