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TALK @ CENTRE FOR FILM STUDIES
UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS
Tuesday 28 November
5:15 pm Board Room, 99 North Street
Dr. David Martin-Jones, University of St Andrews
Deleuze and Asian Cinemas
Too often used to analyse European art films as though they existed
in opposition to the classical Hollywood narrative, this paper
rethinks Deleuze's categories of time-image and movement-image by
bringing them into interaction with Asian cinemas. Initially the
South Korean film Peppermint Candy (2000) is explored in terms of its
use of a reversed narrative time scheme to construct national
identity. The existence of both time- and movement-image in the one
film points towards several difficulties inherent in Deleuze's binary
categories. Various Bollywood films are then used to further draw out
these difficulties, in particular Deleuze's Eurocentrism and his
ignorance of popular genre films. Neither time- nor movement-image,
the distinctive historical, religious, cultural and aesthetic
construction and consumption of the Bollywood film offers a radically
new way of considering the interaction between time- and movement-image.
Dr David Martin-Jones is lecturer in Film Studies at The University
of St Andrews, Scotland. He is the author of Deleuze, Cinema and
National Identity (Edinburgh University Press, 2006) and co-author of
Why Deleuze? (I.B.Taurus, forthcoming). He is also on the editorial
board of the international salon-journal Film-Philosophy. His
research primarily focuses on Deleuze and cinema, but also examines
representations of Scotland, and various Asian Cinemas.
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