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Music in Film and Literature through Shen Congwen’s Editing of the Script of The Border Town
Get PDFWhen editing the film script of his novella The Border Town, Shen Congwen gave special instructions not just on the storyline, but also on how sounds should be used in the film. This paper analyses the effect of the differentiated use of music and sound by the author and director.
The Lindisfarne Gospels: A Living Manuscript
Get PDFThis article questions how current and previous owners have marked the Lindisfarne Gospels, created 1,300 years ago. Their edits, which would be frowned upon today, are useful for historians to understand how the Gospels have been valued by previous owners and thus why they are so treasured today.
Cliché, Irony and the Necessity of Meaning in Endgame and Infinite Jest
Get PDFWith reference to the work of the ordinary language philosopher Stanley Cavell, this essay argues that David Foster Wallace’s 1996 novel Infinite Jest deploys cliché to expose the workings of ironic language in a way that is complementary to a similar exposition in Samuel Beckett’s 1957 play Endgame
Editing for Public Consumption: the Use of Documentary Film in the Promotion of New Zealand’s Mental Hospitals
Get PDFArchitectural design and text-based press releases were the Public Relations tools traditionally employed by New Zealand’s Mental Hospitals Department. The arrival of television to New Zealand in 1960 offered a new medium: the documentary film. This paper will evaluate the evolution of the Department’s propaganda campaign following the availability of documentary film
Cinema, Cliché, and Thought Outside Itself
Get PDFIn Deleuze’s Cinema 1: The Movement-Image and Cinema 2: The Time-Image, the cliché appears as merely one concern in a web of others, and here I would like to argue for its significance in distinguishing the nature of the two regimes of thought associated with the movement-image and the time-image. While Deleuze contends that artists and filmmakers must struggle with the cliché, it seems to me that he does not stress enough that filmmakers often make vital use of the clichés of continuity and spatio-temporal orientation that have been developed in the medium’s short history. It is in making use of these clichés, though not for the purpose of parody alone, that filmmakers are able to most forcefully make visible the limits that clichés set on cinematic thought, and the points at which thought moves outside these limits. In order to make my arguments I will consider the filmic style of Yasujiro Ozu, and Wong Kar-wai’s In the Mood for Love
The Cliché as Complaint and Critique
Get PDFThe cliché is a peripheral term in our critical vocabulary. Reviewers, critics, and editors speak of clichés, but dictionaries of critical terms rarely provide entries on the word. This paper asks whether pointing out clichés represents a form of critique or whether it is just quibbling, and how we draw the line between scrutiny and pedantry
Addendum Introduction
No full textAddendumThe Latest Learning Colloquy was a one-day training conference open to all postgraduate students in the School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures (LLC). It was the culmination of the “Getting Over the Fear” project, which aimed to demystify the conference process, and to offer Masters and PhD students in LLC a chance to present their research in a friendly and supportive environment. The Latest Learning Colloquy was open to all postgraduate students working within the diverse research fields of LLC, including European Languages and Cultures, English Literature, Film Studies and Theatre Studies, Asian Studies, Celtic and Scottish Studies, Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies, Translation Studies, Comparative Literature, and Creative Writing.As the Colloquy was designed to reflect “what’s new in LLC,” the event was made as welcoming and unintimidating as possible. Many of those who took part were Masters students or first year PhD students giving their first ever papers.The two papers included in this Addendum both began life as papers at the Latest Learning Colloquy. ‘The Shakespeare death tercentenary celebrations in England and Scotland: how British was Shakespeare in 1916?’ and ‘Exploring the Enlightenment from Intellectual History and Critical Theory: a case study of hybrid methodologies’ are representative of the fantastic scholarship and ongoing research of the postgraduates in LLC.Thank you to the committee:Victoria MaddenBarbara TesioEmily AndersonHanna LundahlRachel AshcroftNicole CoteGeorgina BarkerLizzie Robinson-SelfVicki MaddenGiulia TotoAnd to the Institute of Academic Development, Research-Led Initiative Fund for your support
Exploring the Enlightenment from Intellectual History and Critical Theory: A Case Study of Hybrid Methodologies in Literary Criticism
Get PDFThis essay is a reflection on the methodological problems that arise when critical theory and intellectual history are brought together in the study of the Enlightenment. Taking my own PhD research as a case study, I explore the tension between the different conceptions of the Enlightenment employed by these methods, and assess the possibility of articulating them together in a single argument
Editorial Introduction: The New Materialisms
Get PDFThe role of matter has been marginalised in much of historical and philosophical thought. Its proximity to the inertia of the physical, and its imbrications with the more basal nature of things, has cultivated a preference for an understanding of the world formulated as a flight from the tiresome weight of the material itself. Matter, as it seemed, has been a mere platform from which the exploration of more significant elements that characterised our experience as human beings could take off. This article explores the rise of new materialist strands of thought as a critical revisiting of the notion of materiality, and situates it within the increasing demand for contemporary paradigms of knowledge.
The Hauntology of Media Addiction
Get PDFThis article proposes an exploration of the phenomenon of media addiction as the expression of a haunting: the re-emergence of nostalgia for presence and materiality. Relying on Jacques Derrida’s hauntology and Karen Barad’s neomaterialist theory, media addiction is refigured as an unavoidable human-technology bond that politics of life cannot escape