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• In Media Res
  Re: The Spectacle of Property

  postcolonial dispossession

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  Rosalind Galt King's College London

  Friday, September 6, 2013 — 9:45 am

  Thanks for this great post, JD, which resonates with Daniel's in some fascinating ways. I was thinking about the house in Black Girl, where the "spectacle of dispossession" underwrites the film's postcolonial perspective. We never see ...
• In Media Res
  Re: Cinema and the Architecture of Invisibility

  Sci fi's viewing architectures

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  Rosalind Galt King's College London

  Wednesday, September 4, 2013 — 12:55 pm

  Thanks for this lovely post, Jocelyn. It moves so seamlessly from the material architectures of cinemas through forms of spectatorship to textual seductions. Your discussion of Sunshine's modes of viewing the cosmos reminded me of Melancholia, a film ...
• In Media Res
  Re: Tsai Ming-liang's Precarious City

  Pockets and sheafs

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  Rosalind Galt King's College London

  Tuesday, September 3, 2013 — 11:39 am

  Thanks, Daniel. I hadn't thought of the affinity between the pocket and the sheaf, but it makes total sense. Of course, pockets are more intimate than sheafs, and I think there's always a particular attention paid in Tsai's films to the rel ...
• In Media Res
  Re: The Coordinates of Neocolonial (In)hospitality

  Sound and space

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  Rosalind Galt King's College London

  Thursday, September 5, 2013 — 1:21 pm

  I really like your discussion of hospitality here, Daniel, and Black Girl is a great choice to think about the politics of space. One thing that strikes me is the spatial arrangement of sound in the clip: while Monsieur and Madame can (over)see Diouana th ...