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Malaysia's dilemma
No full textIn this paper David Martin Jones argues that the ruling coalition led by Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi\u27s United Malay National Organization now faces the challenge of renegotiating the terms of its fraying social contract, widening the basis for minority participation and more forcefully addressing the problem of judicial corruption
David Martin-Jones, Deleuze, Cinema and National Identity. Narrative Time in National Contexts
Full text linkDavid Martin-Jones propose d’articuler les concepts deleuziens d’image-mouvement et d’image-temps avec la question de l’identité nationale. Comment une telle articulation est-elle légitimée ? Gilles Deleuze n’a jamais travaillé sur l’identité nationale, mais le partage des deux types d’image repose sur un fait historique : la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Prenant acte de l’importance de celle-ci, l’auteur en signale l’impact au regard des nations. L’image-temps témoigne, alors, de la remise en cau..
David Martin-Jones, Deleuze, Cinema and National Identity. Narrative Time in National Contexts
Full text linkDavid Martin-Jones propose d’articuler les concepts deleuziens d’image-mouvement et d’image-temps avec la question de l’identité nationale. Comment une telle articulation est-elle légitimée ? Gilles Deleuze n’a jamais travaillé sur l’identité nationale, mais le partage des deux types d’image repose sur un fait historique : la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Prenant acte de l’importance de celle-ci, l’auteur en signale l’impact au regard des nations. L’image-temps témoigne, alors, de la remise en cau..
Australian foreign policy in the twentieth century: the problem of having special friends
No full textFor the first time in its history Australia is in an interesting place at an interesting time, argues David Martin Jones, as the current ideology driving US foreign policy comes into conflict with developing Chinese reality, which is projecting its soft but essentially illiberal power into the wider region. This, he argues, has profound strategic consequences for the US, Australia and South East Asia, especially as the traditions and myths that shape Australian foreign policy are not designed to address such a dilemma
Columbo: Paying Attention 24/7, by David Martin-Jones
Full text linkThe dedication of a single authored monograph to one television show is becomingincreasingly rare. The BFI unceremoniously dropped their TV Classics series ten years ago;Manchester University Press’s indefatigable Television Series now produces books on entiregenres alongside their volumes that focus on particular auteurs. Given that commercialimperative to cover as many television programmes as possible within one study, theproduction of David Martin-Jones’ book is an achievement in and of itself.Columbo: Paying Attention 24/7 is peppered with insightful facts and original analyses.The aesthetic and ideological comparisons drawn between other Cop Dramas of the same erameans anyone with a critical interest in the development of American detective series will needthis book as an essential point of reference. Additionally, the regular comparisons made withcontemporary popular series including shows as leftfield as Game of Thrones⎯in what MartinJones terms “flash forwards”⎯will prove a useful tool when demonstrating to undergraduateshow Columbo continues to maintain a strong presence in popular culture.The book, however, is principally a philosophical inquiry into how attention is shapedin late twentieth-century society and how Columbo participates in this shaping of attention.Thus, with a mixed degree of success, Martin-Jones treats Columbo as a historical artefactthrough which to illuminate America’s change from a nation at the frontier of the Cold War toa beacon of neoliberal globalism.<br/
Cinema Against Doublethink: Ethical Encounters with the Lost Pasts of World History, by David Martin-Jones
Full text linkTrue empathy is not a total understanding of the other, the gait of one in the satisfied knowledge of a walk in the other’s shoes, but an encounter with empathy’s own limits, the impossibility of access to the other’s experiences and histories, an act of hesitation at the edge of an irreducible abyssal distance. What David Martin-Jones does in his bold and brilliant Cinema Against Doublethink is to extend this Levinasian insight to a perspective on world history and the lost pasts of the Global South. By analysing films where “cinematic depictions of the past are aesthetically structured like ethical encounters with others” (2), Martin-Jones diagnoses and exposes a trend in world cinema (what he calls a “world of cinemas”) to decentre Eurocentric and colonialist historical narratives through forcing an encounter with histories that do not fit the singular narrative decreed by colonial modernity. This is framed by Martin-Jones through the Orwellian notion of doublethink as the spinning of a political narrative of the past at odds with the facts
Terrorism, security and the power of informal networks
No full textThis innovative work examines the concept of the informal network and its practical utility within the context of counter terrorism. Drawing together a range of practitioner and academic expertise it explores the character and evolution of informal networks, addressing the complex relationship between kinship groups, transnational linkages and the role that globalisation and new technologies play in their formation and sustainability
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
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