Deleuze, Cinema and National Identity

Deleuze, Cinema and National Identity PDF

Author: David Martin-Jones

Publisher:

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780748635856

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A monograph exploring the ways in which Deleuze's philosophy of time can enhance our understanding of contemporary mainstream cinema.

Deleuze and World Cinemas

Deleuze and World Cinemas PDF

Author: David Martin-Jones

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2011-02-17

Total Pages: 281

ISBN-13: 1441102205

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Shortlisted for the British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies Annual Book Award! Deleuze's Cinema books continue to cause controversy. Although they offer radical new ways of understanding cinema, his conclusions often seem strikingly Eurocentric. Deleuze and World Cinemas explores what happens when Deleuze's ideas are brought into contact with the films he did not discuss, those from Europe and the USA (from Georges Méliès to Michael Mann) and a range of world cinemas - including Bollywood blockbusters, Hong Kong action movies, Argentine melodramas and South Korean science fiction movies. These emergent encounters demonstrate the need for the constant adaptation and reinterpretation of Deleuze's findings if they are to have continued relevance, especially for cinema's contemporary engagement with the aftermath of the Cold War and the global dominance of neoliberal globalization.

National Pastimes

National Pastimes PDF

Author: Katharina Bonzel

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 2020-01-01

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 1496218248

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Sports have long fascinated filmmakers from Hollywood and beyond, from Bend It Like Beckham to Chariots of Fire to Rocky. Though sports films are diverse in their approach, style, and storytelling modes, National Pastimes discloses the common emotional and visual cues that belie each sports film's underlying nationalistic impulses. Katharina Bonzel unravels the delicate matrix of national identity, sports, and emotion through the lens of popular sports films in comparative national contexts, demonstrating in the process how popular culture provides a powerful vehicle for the development and maintenance of identities of place across a range of national cinemas. As films reflect the ways in which myths of nation and national belonging change over time, they are implicated in important historical moments, from Cold War America to the class dynamics of 1980s Thatcherite Britain to the fragmented sense of nation in post-unification Germany. Bonzel shows how sports films provide a means for renegotiating the boundaries of national identity in an accessible, engaging form. National Pastimes opens up new ways of understanding how films appeal to the emotions, using myth-like constructions of the past to cultivate spectators' engagement with historical events.

Deleuze and Film

Deleuze and Film PDF

Author: David Martin-Jones

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Published: 2012-04-04

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13: 0748647465

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A wide-ranging collection of essays on the film-philosophy of Gilles Deleuze. Deleuze and Film explores how different films from around the world 'think' about topics like history, national identity, geopolitics, ethics, gender, genre, affect, religion, surveillance culture, digital aesthetics and the body. Mapping the global diversity of this cinematic thinking, this book greatly expands upon the range of films discussed in Deleuze's Cinema books.

Deleuze and Gender

Deleuze and Gender PDF

Author: Claire Colebrook

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Published: 2019-06-01

Total Pages: 96

ISBN-13: 147446582X

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A unique new study which extends Deleuze's already radical philosophy into ideas of the post-human, truth, reading, sexual difference and gender politics.

Post-Westerns

Post-Westerns PDF

Author: Neil Campbell

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 2020-04-01

Total Pages: 455

ISBN-13: 1496209621

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During the post-World War II period, the Western, like America's other great film genres, appeared to collapse as a result of revisionism and the emergence of new forms. Perhaps, however, as theorists like Gilles Deleuze suggest, it remains, simply "maintaining its empty frame." Yet this frame is far from empty, as Post-Westerns shows us: rather than collapse, the Western instead found a new form through which to scrutinize and question the very assumptions on which the genre was based. Employing the ideas of critics such as Deleuze, Jacques Derrida, and Jacques Rancière, Neil Campbell examines the haunted inheritance of the Western in contemporary U.S. culture. His book reveals how close examination of certain postwar films--including Bad Day at Black Rock, The Misfits, Lone Star, Easy Rider, Gas Food Lodging, Down in the Valley, and No Country for Old Men--reconfigures our notions of region and nation, the Western, and indeed the West itself. Campbell suggests that post-Westerns are in fact "ghost-Westerns," haunted by the earlier form's devices and styles in ways that at once acknowledge and call into question the West, both as such and in its persistent ideological framing of the national identity and values.

Hitchcock and the Cinema of Sensations

Hitchcock and the Cinema of Sensations PDF

Author: Paul Elliott

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2011-08-30

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13: 0857720287

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When we talk of 'seeing' a film, we do not refer to a purely visual experience. Rather, to understand what we see on screen, we rely as much on non-visual senses as we do on sight. This new book rethinks the body in the cinema seat, charting the emergence of embodied film theory and drawing on developments in philosophy, neuroscience, body politics and film theory. Through the prism of Alfred Hitchcock's films, we explore how our bodies and sensual memory enable us to quite literally 'flesh out' what we see on screen: the trope of nausea in "Frenzy", pollution and smell in "Shadow of a Doubt", physical sound reception in the "Psycho" shower scene and the importance of corporeality and closeness in "Rear Window". We see how the body's sensations have a vital place in cinematic reception and the study of film.

National Identity in Global Cinema

National Identity in Global Cinema PDF

Author: C. Celli

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-02-02

Total Pages: 315

ISBN-13: 0230117171

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When themes of historical and cultural identity appear and repeat in popular film, it is possible to see the real pulse of a nation and comprehend a people, their culture and their history. National Identity in Global Cinema describes how national cultures as reflected in popular cinema can truly explain the world, one country at a time.

Journeys on Screen

Journeys on Screen PDF

Author: Louis Bayman

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Published: 2018-11-14

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13: 1474421849

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Addressing the appeal of the journey narrative from pre-cinema to new media and through documentary, fiction and the spaces between, this collection reveals the journey to be a persistent presence across cinema and in cultural modernity.