... to distinguish one form from another. This chapter examines the neo-baroque aesthetics inherent within the television series as serial. ABC American Broadcasting Company Carter Chris CBS Columbia Broadcasting System Close Encounters of the Third Kind Colbys The Dynasty Ndalianis Anglea Spielberg Steven X...

...This chapter proposes a definition of ‘punk cinema’ in the form of a materialist critique. Two vectors run through punk as a whole: aesthetics and economics. The history of punk is the history of the interplay between these two lines of force which find expression through one another. Within punk...

...This chapter shows how Foucault's delineation of an ‘aesthetics of existence’ or a ‘stylistics of being’ is fundamentally in accord with the Deleuzian point of view, and draws some conclusions from this for understanding Deleuze (and Guattari). Along the way it deals with the Kantian diremption...

...Nancy's writing on the image may be understood as a critical engagement with the traditions of modern aesthetics and classical theories of art. However, the starting point for his approach to the image indicates that his writing on this topic has much wider ambitions than the treatment...

...Focussed around three core themes “capitalism, the metaphysics of democracy and aesthetics” these 11 essays emphasise the potential of Nancy's political thought, and collectively situate it within a broader intellectual context which includes engagements with Badiou, Rancière, Foucault, Agamben...

...Simondon considers aesthetic thought to be an effort to recreate a reticular universe, constituted by privileged places and moments on the ground of the world. In aesthetic thought, one finds a search for magic after the loss of magic. Taking this as his starting point, Simondon develops a natural...

... Spotlight From UFA to Hollywood Douglas Sirk Remembers Morley Jr Jay Schmidt Eckhardt ‘poster style’ Towards a New Architecture Douglas Sirk reception aesthetics affective melodrama Michael Fried AloisRiegl All I Desire As one way of initiating the process of re-examining Sirk’s cinematic corpus...

... to modernist aesthetics within the context of other literary responses to the legacy of war, and the threat of war’s return, by writers including Edmund Blunden, Robert Graves and T. E. Lawrence. This study teases out the relationship between nostalgia, trauma and autobiography, and forges connections between...

...Drawing on resources from both the analytical and continental traditions, this book argues that a comprehension of Immanuel Kant's aesthetics is necessary for grasping the scope and force of his epistemology. It draws on phenomenological and aesthetic resources to bring out the continuing relevance...

... as on the history and aesthetics of miniature art forms and the curio, the chapter examines issues of mobility, manipulability and distracted-versus-attentive viewing, before focusing on the effect of miniaturization on the film image itself. aesthetics Bachelard Gaston cinema distraction iPhone kinesis...

... An early version of this research was delivered at a 2014 symposium on British Environmental Aesthetics at Nanzan University. I am grateful to Ve-Yin Tee for the invitation to this event and for his generous feedback on the first draft of this essay. I also gratefully acknowledge the financial...

...This chapter argues that the semiotic item ‘David Lynch’ has become a meme, and through memetic imitation in digital form is stripped of the very essence of David Lynch. It will assess the play that is at work in shaping transmedia aesthetics by way of media transpositions of elements from Lynch’s...

... Freddie Merrick John Apocalypse Now Rising Sun S Town Beaumont Jeffrey Harvey Jack Morris John Nicholls Phoebe Pointer Priscilla Vinton Bobby Booth Frank Hopper Dennis MacLachlan Kyle Braatz Peter No Frank in Lumberton David Lynch videographic criticism the audiovisual essay aesthetics...

...In this chapter Walldén explores Angelidi’s feminist work through an avant-garde practice of uncanniness, exemplified by the film Topos (1988). It reveals a very particular side of feminist aesthetics connected to the practice of the avantgarde and secondly, it relates...

...Electra Venaki in this chapter approaches Angelidi’s work with an analysis of sound aesthetics. For Angelidi, sound is of equal value to images and that is the reason why she constructs meticulous soundscapes, as if someone might hear the film without the images. By contextualising Angelidi’s work...

... Nuha al-Radhi Al-‘Amilun fil Naft oil aesthetics oil policies Al-Bahithun (The (Re)searchers) is an art project that highlights the link between nationalised knowledge and oil wealth. The nationalisation of the Iraqi oil industry in 1972 allowed the Iraqi state to utilise...

... of the energy graph a process of feeling into aesthetic production. Hence, the graph is concerned with accomplishments as an abstract indicator but also with what the visual irradiates beyond its facts. abstraction art Bourdieu Pierre climate change contemporary art cynical reason environment graphs...

... Pierre Robbe Grillet Alain Slogan 1969 Dussollier André Deleuze Gilles Arditi Pierre Azéma Sabine Gassman Vittorio Stryker Amy Kelly Martine Geraldine Chaplin French cinema Jacques Rivette Alain Resnais Michel Deville film performance celebrity studies art cinema film aesthetics...

... Dombasle Arielle Berenson Berry Stewart Kristen Cooley Dana Amalric Mathieu Chaplin Sydney Torrent Ana Geraldine Chaplin film performance celebrity studies film aesthetics transnational cinema and transnational performance To begin, two shots. In each, a Chaplin alternately reveals and withholds...

... French literary influences Formal aesthetics short story The importance of The English Review for the development and exposure of modernist fiction in the Edwardian period has been securely established. From as early as 1930 Ezra Pound helped to consecrate Ford Madox Ford’s...