Toward cinema and its double
Subtitle: cross-cultural mimesis
By: Laleen Jayamanne.
Series: Arts and politics of the everyday
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Bloomington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 315
Subjects: Motion pictures
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [287]-295) and index.
Table of contents: title: Part I. Two-way street : three Australian films; title: 1. "Love me tender, love me true, never let me go" : a Sri Lankan reading of Tracey Moffatt's Night cries, a rural tragedy; title: 2. Reception, genre, and the knowing critic : Dennis O'Rourke's The good woman of Bangkok; title: 3. Postcolonial gothic : the narcissistic wound of Jane Campion's The piano. Part II. Performance of narcissism; title: 4. Speaking of Ceylon : a clash of cultures; title: 5. Anna Rodrigo interviews Laleen Jayamanne on A song of Ceylon; title: 6. Anna Rodrigo interviews Laleen Jayamanne on Row row row your boat. Part III. Melodramatic feminity in Sri Lanka; title: 7. Myths of femininity in the Sri Lankan cinema, 1947-1989; title: 8. Sri Lankan family melodrama : a cinema of primitive attractions; title: 9. An alternative cinematic and critical practice : Palama Yata (Under the bridge) as critical melodrama. Part IV. Movements of time; title: 10. Deleuzean redemption of Bazin : notes on the neorealist moment; title: 11. Modes of performance in Chantal Akerman's Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du commerce, 1080 Bruxelles; title: 12. Life is a dream : Raul Ruiz was a surrealist in Sydney : a capillary memory of a cultural event; title: 13. A slapstick time : mimetic convulsion, convulsive knowing; title: 14. "Eyes in the back of your head" : erotics of learning in Blue steel and The Silence of the lambs; title: 15. Do the right thing : blocking and unblocking the block.