Visions of Linguistic Displacement

2010 Language attrition

Author : Tijana Mamula
Release : 2010
Genre : Language attrition
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Download or read book Visions of Linguistic Displacement written by Tijana Mamula. This book was released on 2010. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis explores the problematic relationship between language loss and visuality in European exile and emigre filmmaking, from the 1940s until the present. The basic theoretical premise adopts Freud's theory of aphasia and its Kristevan interpretation to define the psychic effects of linguistic displacement as the scission of the word-presentation from the thing-presentation and the consequent denial of the symbolic signifier. This depletion of language is compensated or overcompensated for through recourse to the indexical (semiotic) signification of photography, whose psychological significance resides both in its eschewal of the arbitrariness of the signifier, and in its revindication of the semiotic materiality that is indispensable to a meaningful relation to language. At the same time, the overreliance on vision/indexicality risks a hallucinatory excess against which no signification is possible, thus positing an irremediable paradox at the heart of the relationship between linguistic displacement and cinematic visuality. In enacting this relationship, both formally and thematically, the films discussed here attest not only to the crucial, and underexplored, impact of language loss on the development of Western cinema, but also to its theoretical implications for the medium as such. -- Following the introduction, the thesis proceeds through four thematically organized chapters, whose films were selected both for their manifest links to linguistic displacement and for their widespread influence.

Cinema and Language Loss

2013 Language Arts & Disciplines

Author : Tijana Mamula
Release : 2013
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
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Book Synopsis Cinema and Language Loss by : Tijana Mamula

Download or read book Cinema and Language Loss written by Tijana Mamula. This book was released on 2013. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cinema and Language Loss provides the first sustained exploration of the relationship between linguistic displacement and visuality in the filmic realm, examining in depth both its formal expressions and theoretical implications. In tracing the encounter between cinema and language loss across a wide range of films - from Billy Wilder's Sunset Boulevard to Chantal Akerman's News from Home to Michael Haneke's Caché - Mamula reevaluates the role of displacement in postwar Western film and makes an original contribution to film theory and philosophy based on a reconsideration of the place of language in our experience and understanding of cinema.

Cinema and Language Loss

2013-03-05 Performing Arts

Author : Tijana Mamula
Release : 2013-03-05
Genre : Performing Arts
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Download or read book Cinema and Language Loss written by Tijana Mamula. This book was released on 2013-03-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cinema and Language Loss provides the first sustained exploration of the relationship between linguistic displacement and visuality in the filmic realm, examining in depth both its formal expressions and theoretical implications. Combining insights from psychoanalysis, philosophy and film theory, the author argues that the move from one linguistic environment to another profoundly destabilizes the subject’s relation to both language and reality, resulting in the search for a substitute for language in vision itself – a reversal, as it were, of speaking into seeing. The dynamics of this shift are particularly evident in the works of many displaced filmmakers, which often manifest a conflicted interaction between language and vision, and through this question the signifying potential, and the perceptual ambiguities, of cinema itself. In tracing the encounter between cinema and language loss across a wide range of films – from Billy Wilder’s Sunset Boulevard to Chantal Akerman’s News from Home to Michael Haneke’s Caché – Mamula reevaluates the role of displacement in postwar Western film and makes an original contribution to film theory and philosophy based on a reconsideration of the place of language in our experience and understanding of cinema.

Words and visions around/about Chinese transnational mobilities 流动

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Author : Valentina Pedone
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Download or read book Words and visions around/about Chinese transnational mobilities 流动 written by Valentina Pedone. This book was released on . Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection gathers the contributions of ten scholars on the topic of transnational cultural and physical mobility originating in China. These contributions aim to open conversations among Chinese Studies scholars by applying a Mobility Studies perspective. Exploring diverse narratives and forms of representation from people of Chinese heritage, the book is divided into three parts that each look closely at the relationship between movement and cultural production. The first part is dedicated to four types of mobility of people from China to Italy, namely tourist mobility (Miriam Castorina), labor mobility (Valentina Pedone), student mobility (Xu Hao), and mobility of social elites (Andrea Scibetta). The second part is dedicated to examples of reverse mobility from Italy to China (Gao Changxu, Chiara Lepri, Giuseppe Rizzuto). The third part focuses on case studies based on mobilities from China to territories other than Italy (Rebecca Ehrenwirth, Martina Renata Prosperi, Giulia Rampolla).

Vision in Context

2013-09-05 Philosophy

Author : Teresa Brennan
Release : 2013-09-05
Genre : Philosophy
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Download or read book Vision in Context written by Teresa Brennan. This book was released on 2013-09-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vision and the gaze are key issues in the analysis of racism, sexism and ethnocentrism. In recent radical theory, generally, and French theory in particular, vision has been seen as a means of control. But this view is often unnuanced. It bypasses questions such as: Why is it that contemporary theories have been so critical of vision, and generous towards listening (in psychoanalysis) and language (in philosophy)? This collection of original essays brings together historical studies and contemporary theoretical perspectives on vision. The historical papers focus in turn on Ancient Greece, medieval theology, the Renaissance, the Enlightenment and the nineteenth century. These historical studies are themselves thoroughly informed by poststructuralist theory. They provide a rigorous background for several new, exciting articles on vision and its bearings for feminism, race, sexual orientation, film and art. This collection is the first of its kind in juxtaposing historical and contemporary

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