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I've been very lax in promoting a recent special issue of @filmphiljournal I co-edited with Prof Catherine Constable and Dr Timotheus Vermeulen so prepare for a thread with short summaries and links to the (open access) articles!
This issue has its origins in the 2015 Film-Philosophy Conference: The Evaluation of Form. A number of our contributors appeared on panels together - some by design, some by coincidence! You can read more about how we situate the special issue here euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.336…
Opening the issue proper is a fantastic article from @LisaPurse on the digital surfaces of cinema. Combining historical overview with close reading, I can see this article being of particular use in teaching the aesthetics CGI (& a great piece on DREDD) euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.336…
The contribution from editor Timotheus Vermeulen compliments Purse's article in a number of ways. Vermeulen considers techniques of flattening and depthlessness in LA HAINE & PLEASANTVILLE (I've already added it to my syllabus for teaching depth of field!) euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.336…
Pansy Duncan's article on the "Lumino-Politics" of THE SEARCHERS is a fascinating combination of attentive close textual analysis and politically engaged contextual reading that considers technologies of light from paraffin to the LED euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.336…
@LFDonaldson provides a superb reading of the seductive surfaces of THE DAY OF THE JACKAL. Donaldson's piece is also an important contribution to the critical shift away from director-focused readings to ones centring other "bodies" euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.336…
Maryn Wilkinson's article challenges monolithic notions of "surface". Through close readings of the "depthless" BLING RING, SPRING BREAKERS, and DRIVE; Wilkinson outlines three distinct strategies of surface engagement: skimming, drifting, & coasting euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.336…
In my article, I read Tony Scott's DEJA VU through the lens of postmodern theory, and examine how the film's style challenges the binary opposition between critical distance and complicit closeness goo.gl/mJ4inT (shared via kudos)
James MacDowell provides a thorough interrogation of the concept of "surface meaning" in film and its relation to irony. MacDowell navigates a tricky topic with clarity and rigour - while also providing a delightful reading of CLUELESS along the way! euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.336…
Catherine Constable's piece on the surfaces of science-fiction and EX MACHINA exemplifies the approach taken across the issue, combining close reading with precise theoretical engagement. Constable considers how the film conceptualises gender and humanness euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.336…
And that's it! I really hope you enjoy the issue!
If anyone is interested then I'm ALWAYS eager to chat about Tony Scott, and if you can stomach the shameless plug my dissertation on Scott, Sally Potter, and postmodern authorship is available here wrap.warwick.ac.uk/80983/
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