[ecrea] DAVID MARTIN-JONES - Deleuze, Cinema and National Identity

>Deleuze Cinema and National Identity
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>Narrative Time in National Contexts
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>David Martin Jones
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>An impressive feat and a model for future 
>scholarship in this vein. Martin-Jones makes 
>Deleuze matter, in that his historical 
>perspective stresses that the Deleuzian 
>distinction between time- and movement-images is 
>not merely formal, but deeply political. 
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>[This book] tackles the burning questions of 
>globalisation. While critiquing the dated, 
>European, even French nature of Deleuzian 
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>relevance in a global context & The strength of 
>the analyses, and the work as a whole lies in 
>its avoidance of triumphalism, whether national 
>or transnational. Applied to such highly 
>political questions, the notions of 
>deterritorialisation and reterritorialisation 
>emerge in all their complexity and power. Questions de communication
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>Martin-Jones gives us not another book on how 
>to define a national cinema; rather, he writes 
>something far more useful, by exploring the 
>construction of national identity through 
>popular narrative cinemas. Senses of Cinema
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>Deleuze, Cinema and National Identity deploys 
>Deleuzes philosophical ideas to examine the 
>construction of national identity across a range 
>of different cinemas. Focusing on unusual 
>constructions of narrative time, the films 
>discussed include: Eternal Sunshine of the 
>Spotless Mind, Terminator 3, Memento, Saving 
>Private Ryan, Run Lola Run, Sliding Doors, Chaos 
>and Peppermint Candy. Each film is examined in 
>light of a major historical event  such as 
>9/11, German reunification and the Asian 
>economic crisis  and the impact it had on 
>individual nations. This cross-cultural approach 
>illustrates how Deleuzes work enhances our 
>understanding of the construction of national 
>identity in cinema, and enables a critique of 
>Deleuzes at times Eurocentric conclusions.
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>Key Features
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>·      The first sustained analysis of Deleuze, 
>cinema and national identity, bringing together film theory and film history
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>·      Examines how narrative time is used to 
>construct national identity across a range of 
>different cinemas, including Britain, Germany, 
>North America, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, Italy and Poland
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>·      Uses Deleuze in conjunction with 
>different types of recent cinema, from Hollywood 
>blockbusters to European art films, to Asian gangster movies
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>David Martin-Jones lectures in Film Studies at 
>the University of St Andrews. He has published 
>work in a range of international journals, 
>including Cinema Journal and Screen. He is on 
>the editorial boards of A/V: The Journal of 
>Deleuzian Studies and Film-Philosophy. His 
>research focuses on questions of national 
>identity and popular cinemas, primarily using 
>Deleuze, but also by examining representations 
>of Scotland and various Asian Cinemas.
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>February 2008
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>256pp
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>ISBN 978 0 7486 3585 6
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>£18.99
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