Iconography, poetics and music. An iconographic analysis of Leonard Cohen’s videoclips directed by female artists.
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This paper addresses the study of iconographic elements that we can find in the four video clips on Leonard Cohen songs directed by female artists: Dance Me To The End Of Love (1984) and First We Take Manhattan (1988), by Dominique Issermann; In My Secret Life (2001), by Floria Sigismondi; and Because Of (2004), by Lorca Cohen. The truth is that there are not so many analyses of the few official videos released during Leonard Cohen’s musical career. Nevetheless, we believe that this kind of audiovisual languaje allows an ideal approach to some symbolic components which are recurrent in his work. In addition, it is in our interests the fact that they were filmed by women, considering the abundant allusions to feminity in his writings.
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