GALLERY: Poster Art as Cultural Labor in the Cinematic Archive of Claire Denis

Abstract

As posters vary in their intervention in every day consumer culture, they take on distinctive functions for specific audiences, and like other forms of mediation, they engage with the intersectionality and cultural discourses of race, class, gender, sexuality, etc., as well as the unconscious and the needs it harbors and drives. In doing so, a poster may be legible but not necessarily intelligible and evoke associations that mask or simplistically frame assumptions about the social world.