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'A Place Called Slaughter Race': Spectres of conflict in contemporary Disney animation
This thesis traces the themes of war, racism, ecological anxiety and postindustrial subjugation as forms of conflict informing the Walt Disney Animation Studios features Big Hero 6 (Don Hall and Chris Williams, 2014), ... -
Reorienting objects in Alain Resnais and Chris Marker’s Les Statues Meurent Aussi
(Oxford University Press, 2017-12-01)Chris Marker’s six-minute film Junkopia (1981) was shot alongside his ambitious feature-length project Sans Soleil/Sunless (1982). While the latter ‘nomadic’ film-text comprises a string of encounters spanning national and ... -
Gesture and the cinéaste: Akerman/Agamben, Varda/Warburg
(Department of French, University of Cambridge, 2016-03-01)This thesis offers an adjunct to recent theories of the haptic contingent upon proximity by considering how embodied engagement might take place at a distance. Developing a broad definition of gesture as a motion away from ...
