Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media. Issue 02: Space and Time in Film

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Employing with lucidity and conviction a range of methodological approaches, these articles challenge us to rethink texts and genres from the vantage point of spatio-temporal constructs and relationships, showing how, rather than annihilate the principle of identity, the filmic observation of the infinitesimal variations of the space-time continuum has the power to both establish and interrogate it. Edited by Marian Hurley, Deborah Mellamphy and Jill Moriarty, University College Cork.

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Mihailova, M. (2011) Animating Space: From Mickey To WALL-E, by J.P. Telotte
(Film and Screen Media, University College Cork, 2011) Mihailova, Mihaela
The ISEA 2011 Istanbul International Symposium on Electronic Art, Sabaci Center, Istanbul, 14-21 September
(Film and Screen Media, University College Cork, 2011) Nelson, Jodi
Making nothing happen: the transition from reactive nihilism to affirmation in Jim Jarmusch’s Broken Flowers (2005)
(Film and Screen Media, University College Cork, 2011) Backman Rogers, Anna
This article draws from Gilles Deleuze’s interpretation of the Nietzschean concept of “the eternal return” in order to read Jim Jarmusch’s film Broken Flowers as being not merely a study in duration, apathy and reactive nihilism, but also a film which, through its formal repetitive structure, also offers pathways to transformation and affirmation. As such, I argue that the central protagonist, Don Johnston undergoes a subtle yet crucial change in the course of the film from a state of ressentiment to affirmation and becoming. I also characterise the film as an absurdist quest or road movie.

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