Author(s)

Zou Yiqiao ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ Shanghai Theatre Academy, Shanghai, China

Corresponding Author

Zou Yiqiao

ABSTRACT

Released in 2022, the film The Hours connects the destinies of three characters as women through a novel called Mrs. Dalloway, and tells the stories of three generations of women spanning nearly eighty years. Through its special arrangement of time and space, the film achieves a special expressive effect. It also constitutes the film's special temperament of fluidity, jumping and instability, and thus conveys the changes and growth of the three generations of women in the midst of the changes of the times. The film connects the three time periods through the recurrence of similar imagery and plots. The fates of the three generations of women range from death, running away to liberation, and their different but similar fates together constitute the feminist expression of the film. This paper aims to analyze the techniques of spatial-temporal presentation employed in the film The Hours and examine the impact of its distinctive spatial-temporal narrative on conveying feminist themes.

KEYWORDS

The Hours; Spatial-temporal presentation; Feminism

CITE THIS PAPER

Zou Yiqiao, Spatial-Temporal Presentation and Feminist Expression in The Hours. Lecture Notes on Language and Literature (2024) Vol. 7: 79-85. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/langl.2024.070613.

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