by Jayamanne, Laleen
Book / 2001
TitleToward cinema and its double : cross-cultural mimesis
Item typeBook
Author(s)Jayamanne, Laleen
ImprintBloomington Indiana University Press, 2001
SeriesArts and politics of the everyday
ISBN
  • 0253339820
  • 0253214750
LanguageEnglish
URLLink to original record
Notes
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [287]-295) and index.
  • Part I. Two-way street : three Australian films -- 1. "Love me tender, love me true, never let me go" : a Sri Lankan reading of Tracey Moffatt's Night cries, a rural tragedy -- 2. Reception, genre, and the knowing critic : Dennis O'Rourke's The good woman of Bangkok -- 3. Postcolonial gothic : the narcissistic wound of Jane Campion's The piano. Part II. Performance of narcissism -- 4. Speaking of Ceylon -- 5. Anna Rodrigo interviews Laleen Jayamanne on A song of Ceylon -- 6. Anna Rodrigo interviews Laleen Jayamanne on Row row row your boat. Part III. Melodramatic feminity in Sri Lanka -- 7. Myths of femininity in the Sri Lankan cinema, 1947-1989 -- 8. Sri Lankan family melodrama : a cinema of primitive attractions -- 9. An alternative cinematic and critical practice : Palama Yata (Under the bridge) as critical melodrama. Part IV. Movements of time -- 10. Deleuzean redemption of Bazin : notes on the neorealist moment -- 11. Modes of performance in Chantal Akerman's Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du commerce, 1080 Bruxelles -- 12. Life is a dream : Raul Ruiz was a surrealist in Sydney : a capillary memory of a cultural event -- 13. A slapstick time : mimetic convulsion, convulsive knowing -- 14. "Eyes in the back of your head" : erotics of learning in Blue Steel and
  • The silence of the lambs -- 15. Do the right thing : blocking and unblocking the block.
  • Pacific Film Archive collection; non-circulating. CBPF.
Physical descriptionxv, 315 p. ; 25 cm.

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2001
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Jayamanne, Laleen
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Indiana University Press
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