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Susan Sontag (1933-2004) was an essayist and writer, activist and theorist as well as a pop culture celebrity. Controversial, intellectual, passionate, empathetic, combative, and always dedicated to her work. Her writing on photography and war reporting, cancer and AIDS, and not least film and cinema, is legendary.
Regarding Susan Sontag. An intimate investigation into the life of Susan Sontag, one of the most influential and provocative thinkers of the 20th century. Passionate and outspoken, Sontag was a literary, political and feminist icon. This film explores her life through experimental images, archival materials, accounts from friends, family ...
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Sontag once wrote, "my desire to write is connected with my homosexuality" which I thought Regarding Susan Sontag took to heart too much. it is a sloppy documentary on a fascinating and controversial thinker focusing mostly on her seemingly endless string of liaisons with women. this came off as quite obsessive at that and somehow bordered lesbian melodrama a la The L Word. it also scarcely ...
1969 Styles of Radical Will Sontag"s second collection of essays, Styles of Radical Will, is published by FSG. It includes “The Aesthetics of Silence” and “The Pornographic Imagination.” 1969 Duet for Cannibals Sontag makes her first foray into feature film, directing Duet for Cannibals, an avant-garde story about a sadistic political figure, his wife and their relationships with a ...
REGARDING SUSAN SONTAG REGARDING SUSAN SONTAG is an intimate and nuanced investigation into the life of one of the most influential and provocative thinkers of the 20th century. Passionate and gracefully outspoken throughout her career, Susan Sontag became one of the most important literary, political and feminist icons of her generation.
29 mar 2016 · ByHarriet Smith HughesEssaysMarch 29, 2016. On ‘Regarding Susan Sontag’. I. The documentary opens on Susan Sontag’s profile to camera, the black of a television studio beyond. “I love being alive. I wake up every morning very grateful that I’m alive.”. The angle changes, and Sontag’s face, lined, past middle age, fills the screen.
13 set 2014 · Regarding Susan Sontag is a film to which you will want to dedicate your full attention. Part of the film’s intensity is likely a mirror of Sontag’s own life experience. Sontag began writing stories and plays at the age of 6 or 8, and started college at the age of 15. She was married Phillip Rieff at 17 and had a son, David, at 19.
