Michelle Royer is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of French and Francophone Studies at the University of Sydney, where she teaches French speaking cinema. Her research focuses on 20th and 21st Century cinema, French socio-political films, French female filmmakers, Marguerite Duras’s cinema and French feminist thought. She has published extensively on French Female filmmakers and on star studies in French and in English.

• Introduction1: Film Theory, Multisensoriality and the Feminine2: Inscribing Authorship3: De-synchronisation, Subversion and the Senses4: Multisensorial Visuality5: Soundscape: Sonic Aesthetics and the FeminineConclusionBibliographyFilmography

Royer’s study is a brilliant repositioning of Duras’s cinema as a poetical, multisensory experience. Informed by recent developments in neuroscience and film theory such as embodied spectatorship and cinesthetic encounters and the feminist criticism of Irigaray, Kristeva, Cixous and others, Royer illuminates Duras’s radically innovative—and gendered--cinematic voice and syntax. A masterly analysis.