Naslov
Theory and Practice of Minor Cinema: A Comparative Perspective

Autori
Tomić, Janica

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, sažetak, znanstveni

Izvornik
Re-Imagining Literatures of the World: Global and Local, Mainstreams and Margins / - , 2022, 597-598

Skup
Re-Imagining Literatures of the World: Global and Local, Mainstreams and Margins (XXIII International Comparative Literature Association Congress)

Mjesto i datum
Tbilisi, Gruzija, 24.07.2022. - 29.07.2022

Vrsta sudjelovanja
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Ključne riječi
minor literature, minor cinema, fabulation

Sažetak
The paper proposes to examine the history and theory of “minor cinema”, referring back to the key aspects of minor, as defined by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari text Kafka: Toward a Minor Literature and its usage in film studies (Rodowick, Rascaroli, etc.). Tom Gunning’s pioneering appropriation of their concept in an essay Towards a minor cinema (1990) describes amateur and marginal film practice as the new avant-garde, in contrast to the established and institutionalized art, as a cinema that celebrates its marginal identity, fashioning from it a revolutionary consciousness. Gunning's reading continues to inspire texts on amateur, experimental and adjacent marginal film cultures, from Los Angeles to Switzerland (not the least in countries like Sweden that benefit from exemplary archival film practice). But the notion of „minor cinema“ has been disseminated further across film studies, e.g. in film cultures like Nordic that have historically defined themselves in contrast to the Hollywood dominant, up to Mette Hjort's analyses of contemporary Danish as a “minor cinema”. David N. Rodowick, on the other hand, referred back to Deleuze's claim that "if there were a modern political cinema, it would be on this basis: the people no longer exist, or not yet“, and criticized identity politics and common identification of “minor” with demographic minorities. Such a reading, Rodowick claims, reifies the subaltern subject no less than the cultural hegemony it is trying to combat, whereas minor cinema, just like fiction, should produce “collective utterances (énoncés collectifs) whose paradoxical property is to address a people who do not yet exist and, in so doing, urge them toward becoming”.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Filologija, Znanost o umjetnosti, Interdisciplinarne humanističke znanosti

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