Tag Archives: Pilgrimage

Dorothy Richardson’s ‘The Tunnel’: Feminism and Flânerie in Bloomsbury

Posted on 07/02/2014 by Bobby Seal

  The idea of the flâneur was born in Paris and was first referred to by Baudelaire.  However, London writers have long used the device of the casual wanderer of the capital’s streets, the loiterer, the observer, as a means … Continue reading →

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Flânerie Seen Through a Lens: Light, Movement and Film

Posted on 10/05/2012 by Bobby Seal

I am fascinated by how the creative process of film-making links with the practice of the flâneur, feminism and early modernist fiction. The modern(ist) metropolis and the institution of cinema came into being at about the same time.  Their juxtaposition … Continue reading →

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