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UCL Mellon Programme: Identities and Culture in Europe since 1945

Seminar: 18 January 2006

Dr David Martin-Jones Deleuze, Cinema and National Identity: Narrative Time in National Contexts

Abstract

My research covers a range of national cinemas, and is focused on the way in which narrative time is used to construct national identity. My approach utilises Deleuze's time- and movement-image categories to examine recent films with disrupted narratives -- everything from Memento and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind from America, Sliding Doors and Run Lola Run from Britain and Germany, and even Hideo Nakata's Chaos from Japan, and from South Korea, Peppermint Candy. It also questions Deleuze's categories by examining how these films contain aspects of both movement- and time-image, and how they use these categories specifically to negotiate national identity. With my approach I am able to provide different conclusions than Deleuze.

My book Deleuze, Cinema and National Identity: Narrative Time in National Contexta is forthcoming with Edinburgh University Press this summer.

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