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Editing in Leone\u27s The Good, The Bad and The Ugly (1966) and Peckinpah\u27s The Wild Bunch (1969)
Get PDFIn the first part of this paper I establish the centrality of editing to cinema as an art form, with specific reference to Rudolph Arnheim, Andre Bazin, Jean-Luc Godard, and Gilles Deleuze. I then examine the approaches to montage editing taken by Sergio Leone and Sam Peckinpah, in The Good, The Bad and The Ugly (1966) and The Wild Bunch (1969). While both filmmakers use highly visible editing techniques there are also significant differences, particularly regarding the build-up to an action sequence and the sequence itself, their preferred shots and combinations of shots, and their use of music
Editing Lives/Rewriting Public Identity: Celebrity and Authorship in Martin Amis’s Experience
Get PDFAddressing the negotiation of fame by the celebrity-author, and treating authorial persona as a collectively inscribed discursive identity-text, this article examines Martin Amis’s Experience (2000) for the textual strategies used to position Amis as implied editor and to emphasise the postmodern textuality of the life being narrated
Mineralising Software: Moving Through Material Processes
Get PDFIntroducing the notion of ‘mineralisation’ as a conceptual tool taken from Manuel DeLanda and applied in the context of software, this article investigates the mineral origins of software and how to engage in mapping the vibrancy of software through new material practices
Cliché: An Introduction
Get PDFBefore writing the call for papers for this issue, I conducted an online search for \u27cliché in writing.\u27 Predictably, the search produced dozens of pages with tips for writers: \u2712 Clichés all Writers Should Avoid\u27 (Klems), \u27Avoiding Clichés in Writing\u27 (Writer’s Web), and one article brewing dangerously close to a perfect meta-cliché storm: \u27681 Clichés to Avoid in Your Creative Writing\u27 (Luke). Cautions about clichés extend to both creative and academic communities. This introduction offers thoughts on these academic recommendations and discusses the ab(use) and (un)necessity of clichés
Review of Ann Murray, ed. Germanistik in Ireland, Interrogating Normalcy
Get PDFGermanistik in Ireland, Interrogating Normalcy, edited by Ann Murray, is a rich and diverse collection of essays from postgraduate students within German Studies. The papers’ literary and historical subjects span three centuries and provide a helpful, wide-ranging insight into current postgraduate research in the field
“the killing of speech”: The Sonic-Politics of The Four Horsemen
Get PDFIn The Sound of Poetry / The Poetry of Sound, Marjorie Perloff suggests that “however central the sound dimension is to any and all poetry, no other poetic feature is currently as neglected.” This paper locates its study of the paleotechnic sound poetry quartet The Four Horsemen along emergent philosophical vectors in sound and vibrational studies to consider the possibilities of vocal expression beyond logocentricism.
From False Teeth to Exoskeletons: The Body and Materiality in William Gibson’s Burning Chrome
Get PDFConsidering texts from William Gibson’s short story collection, Burning Chrome, this essay seeks to establish that the material ontology of the body cannot be discounted in current ontological and existential debates, but rather, we might re-conceptualise pre-existing notions of human selfhood under the conditions of a technologically enhanced social aesthetic
Local Explanations: Editing a Sense of Place in Walter Scott’s Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border
Get PDFThis essay examines Walter Scott’s engagement with concepts of place and regionality in the ballad collection Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border (1802-3), revealing ways in which the editor represented and re-imagined the ballads, their associated sense of place and their physical settings
On The Threshold of New Materialist Studies
Get PDFThis article answers a question addressed to the author during the selection procedure for a research network: if we were to be awarded funding, would we also work toward formulating (under)graduate degrees in new materialist studies? The article engages with this issue of Forum to provide an original impetus for preliminary thoughts on the institutionalisation of new materialist studies as a platform for academic research and scholarly degrees
Notes on Metallic Affect: Metallurgy and New Materialism
Get PDFThis paper follows Theodore Wertime, twentieth century historian of metallurgy, spy turned survivalist. Wertime\u27s fascination with metallurgy is related to the Smith in Deleuze and Guattari and the mythical Alchemist of Mircea Eliade\u27s work; also explored are notions of the Cyborg and of Geotrauma. Wertime\u27s work presages a conception of the anthropocene and presumes fatal entanglement between humans and the tools they use