![]() The comparison is rewarding from another perspective as well: it illuminates textuality in the movie and filmic aspects of the text. ![]() In other words, not only can we better appreciate the role of the female voice in her after having read Ovid’s Echo, but by considering its protagonist Samantha we can appreciate aspects of Echo never considered before. Set in the near future, Los Angeles, Theodore Twombly, an introverted, lonely, and depressed man due to his recent divorce from his childhood sweetheart turns to artificial intelligence named Samantha for companionship,and develops an unexpected romance. While reception studies more traditionally seek to reconstruct and demonstrate influences of one work on another, I argue that Donna Haraway’s “diffractive reading” and Hartmut Böhme’s “allelopoiesis” can generate complex and nuanced reading since they productively illuminate the interdependency of the two comparanda. Spike Jonze's video for The Chemical Brothers' 'Elektrobank' (1997) was the first: depicting a gymnast (Sofia Coppola) at an international competition. Spike Jonze’s Her is a dystopian fiction that envisages a world wherein machine sentience has achieved the capacity to replace human experiences thereby leading to an ontological crisis of. Her, written and directed by Spike Jonze. ![]() ![]() p.221-247 Author Marco FormisanoĪbstract How productive can a comparison be between an ancient Latin text and a modern film? What are the methodological implications and how might this comparison fundamentally change the perception and interpretation of both text and film? In this article Spike Jonze’s film her (2013) and the episode of Echo and Narcissus in Ovid’s Metamorphoses (book 3) are discussed together, not because it is possible to establish a direct influence of the Latin poem on the work of the American director, but because of a shared central theme, that of voice, in particular a female voice. Charnock, Ruth (2015) Back and forth, forever: digital intimacies in Me and You and Everyone We Know Miranda July, 2006 and Her Spike Jonze, 2013. ![]()
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