This book examines Duras s contribution to contemporary cinema. The dark room in the collection s title refers to one of Duras s metaphors for the writing process, la chambre noire, as the solitary space of literary creation, the place where she struggles to project her internal shadow onto the blank page. The dark room is also a metaphor for the film theater and, by extension, for the filmic experience. Duras rejected conventional forms of cinematic address that encourage the spectator to develop a positive identification with the film s diegesis and narrative. Her films create...