Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media. Issue 07: Corporeal Cinema

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Inspired by groundbreaking works that have helped to shift the critical discourse on corporeality and embodiment, this themed issue of Alphaville highlights a diverse range of fresh, original work from emerging and established scholars. In setting our mandate for the issue, we wondered how affective theorisations of cinema as embodied experience might usefully intersect with image studies of the human body as raced, gendered, and inextricably tied to broader social and cultural realities. Edited by Ian Murphy and Gwenda Young, University College Cork.

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Beyond the human body: Claire Denis's ecologies
(Film and Screen Media, University College Cork, 2014) McMahon, Laura
This article explores the work of Claire Denis beyond the focus on the human body through which it is commonly read. Addressing Beau Travail (1999) and The Intruder (2004), I examine an ecological impulse that manifests itself through a nonanthropocentric detailing of the coexistence of body and landscape, and a nonhierarchical attentiveness to the distributed agencies of humans, animals and things. I draw here in particular on Gilles Deleuze’s notion of the crystal-image and on Jean-Luc Nancy’s thinking of ecotechnics, as elaborated in his essay on The Intruder (a film inspired by Nancy’s autobiographical essay, L’Intrus). In Beau Travail, Deleuzian crystals of time draw attention to the nonhuman histories of the landscape. In The Intruder, this crystalline structure persists, reactivating traces of nonhuman pasts, while a focus on canine gestures and responses signals nonhuman perceptual worlds in the present. Deleuze’s “Desert Islands”, another text that shapes The Intruder, offers a further way of reading the film’s attentiveness to the nonhuman—an attentiveness that extends, as Nancy suggests, to a consideration of environmental crisis.
Performing Authorship: Self-inscription and Corporeality in the Cinema, by Cecilia Sayad
(Film and Screen Media, University College Cork, 2014) Busetta, Laura; Shine, Jessica
Authorship and the Films of David Lynch: Aesthetic Receptions in Contemporary Hollywood, by Antony Todd
(Film and Screen Media, University College Cork, 2014) Mellamphy, Deborah; Shine, Jessica
The 2014 Atlanta Film Festival (ATLFF), Atlanta, GA, U.S.A., 26 March-4 April 2014
(Film and Screen Media, University College Cork, 2014) Mock, Erin Lee; O'Riordan, Nicholas
Imagining the Past: Ken Russell, Biography and the Art of Making History, Brussels, BE, 19–20 March 2014
(Film and Screen Media, University College Cork, 2014) Flanagan, Kevin M.; O'Riordan, Nicholas

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