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dc.contributor.author | Rugo, D | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2017-01-18T14:47:11Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2016-12-19 | - |
dc.date.available | 2017-01-18T14:47:11Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2016 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Cultural Politics, 12(3): pp. 263 - 278, (2016) | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 1751-7435 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/13891 | - |
dc.description.abstract | A recurring feature of Patrick Keiller’s work is the lack of human presence and activity. Throughout his films Keiller delivers a vision of England as a desert island, depopulated and unoccupied. Scrutinizing Keiller’s early shorts and feature-length films this article argues that the mentioned absence of human subjects allows the filmmaker to articulate a broader discourse on space, so that the films can be described as ‘spatial fictions’. By aligning his work to various strands of utopian thinking of space – from the Surrealists to Henri Lefebvre and the Situationists – Keiller forces us to think the relationship between cinema and space and offers a geography of absence as the precondition for the imagination of a new ‘space’. The article discusses how this framework informs Keiller’s visual grammar and his emphasis on a deliberate scarcity of gestures and the invisibility of the cinematic apparatus. By ‘withdrawing’ from the production of the image Keiller suggests the idea that the absence of a sign always functions as the sign of an absence | en_US |
dc.format.extent | 263 - 278 | - |
dc.language | English | - |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.publisher | Duke University Press | en_US |
dc.subject | Landscape film | en_US |
dc.subject | Patrick Keiller | en_US |
dc.subject | Gilles Deleuze | en_US |
dc.subject | Henri Lefebvre | en_US |
dc.subject | Space | en_US |
dc.subject | England on Film | en_US |
dc.subject | London | en_US |
dc.title | England, that desert island. Patrick Keiller's spatial fictions | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.identifier.doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/17432197-3648834 | - |
dc.relation.isPartOf | Cultural Politics | - |
pubs.issue | 3 | - |
pubs.publication-status | Published | - |
pubs.volume | 12 | - |
Appears in Collections: | Dept of Social and Political Sciences Research Papers |
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