Beyond the human body: Claire Denis's ecologies

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dc.contributor.authorMcMahon, Laura
dc.date.accessioned2018-04-24T09:20:14Z
dc.date.available2018-04-24T09:20:14Z
dc.date.issued2014
dc.description.abstractThis 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.en
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dc.identifier.citationMcMahon, L. (2014) 'Beyond the human body: Claire Denis's ecologies', Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media, 7. https://doi.org/10.33178/alpha.7.06en
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.33178/alpha.7.06
dc.identifier.endpage111
dc.identifier.issn2009-4078
dc.identifier.issued7
dc.identifier.journalabbrevAlphaville
dc.identifier.journaltitleAlphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Mediaen
dc.identifier.startpage94
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/5847
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherFilm and Screen Media, University College Corken
dc.relation.urihttp://www.alphavillejournal.com/Issue7/HTML/ArticleMcMahon.html
dc.rights© 2014, The Author(s)en
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subjectNonhumanen
dc.subjectEnvironmental crisisen
dc.subjectBeau Travailen
dc.subjectThe Intruderen
dc.subjectBodyen
dc.subjectLandscapeen
dc.subjectGilles Deleuzeen
dc.subjectCrystal-imageen
dc.subjectJean-Luc Nancyen
dc.subjectEcotechnicsen
dc.titleBeyond the human body: Claire Denis's ecologiesen
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
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