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Volume 15, Issue 2
  • ISSN: 2042-1869
  • E-ISSN: 2042-1877

Abstract

Developments in visual effects technology have diversified the selection of strategies by which filmmakers can create character “doubles.” This article compares modernist and postmodernist cinema through an approach to the human subject and doubling as represented by image technology. In particular, it investigates the examples of Ingmar Bergman’s (1966) and Darren Aronofsky’s (2010), two films in which doubling functions similarly in the narrative.

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Representations of Doubling in Film: Can Two Become One?
Film Matters 15, 71 (2024); https://doi.org/10.1386/fm_00339_1
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Keyword(s): Black Swan; Darren Aronofsky; doubling; Ingmar Bergman; Persona; VFX

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