PAPERS
‘A Brief and Incomplete Guide to non-Fascist Cinema’ (2007)
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‘Deleuze and the British Screen: remapping the New Wave’ (2006)
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‘Ichikawa’s An Actor’s Revenge: subjectivity or assemblage?’ (2005)
In his second book on the cinema, Deleuze concentrates upon exploring modernist film. This taxonomy, far from being over-determined, is constructed in order to confront other critical and theoretical approaches to film. Of these, one of the most fascinating is the ‘mirror-image’. Though not explicitly stated, with the mirror-image Deleuze is confronting the psychoanalysis of Jacques Lacan, confronting the Lacanian concepts of the imaginary and the real with his own concepts of the actual and the virtual.
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‘Why Can’t Hollywood Look? Trauma/Thought’ (2005)
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‘Globalisation and Cinema: Miike Takashi, Japanese film and the Question of a Universal Subjectivity’ (2004)
This paper begins by examining the CGI cock-fighting scene from Miike Takashi’s The City of Lost Souls (2000), which mimics ‘bullet-time’ – the technology most easily associated with the Matrix trilogy. This scene raises a specific question regarding the connection between Japanese and North American cinema. Why, for instance, spend such a large amount of the film’s limited budget on a sequence that is seemingly incidental to the narrative trajectory? Is this parody?
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‘Deleuze, Keaton, Beckett: Film, Movement and Time’ (2004)
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‘”Idioteque”: The Popular and the Avant-Garde’ (2003)
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