The Feminist Beachscape: Catherine Breillat, Diane Kurys and Agnes Varda

Copyright © 2011 L’Esprit Créateur. This article first appeared in L'Esprit Créateur 51:1 (2011), 83-96. Reprinted with permission by The Johns Hopkins University Press.Abstract not available

The possibilities of a beach: queerness and Francois Ozon's beaches

© The Author 2012. This is a pre-copy-editing, author-produced PDF of an article accepted for publication in Screen following peer review. The definitive publisher-authenticated version vol. 53 issue 1 pp. 54-71 is available online at: http://screen.oxfordjournals.org/content/53/1/54.abstract.François Ozon's predilection for the beach has been noted by many critics, to the extent that is now read as an auteurist signature. Using the work of Judith Halberstam and Lee Edelman, this essay argues that the recurrent use of the beachscape in Ozon's films offers a way of envisaging a queer cinema which is not predicated on individual bodies performing discrete acts, but which provides a framework for constantly reconfiguring what queer forms and practices might be. His beaches undo reproductive futurism as they place time into a loop of repetition and haunting. These spectral figures often take the form of ghostly children, though these act not as sentimental ciphers of the future but as an affective pull issuing from another time (a simultaneous doubled past and future) outside of the remit of normative desires. As such, Ozon's films offer a radical vision in which alternative kinship structures are suggested by the friable and shifting nature of the sands which feature in his films

Alternative Inheritances: Rethinking What Adaptation Might Mean in Francois Ozon's Le Temps qui reste [Time to Leave]

Reprinted with permission of Literature/Film Quarterly @ Salisbury University, Salisbury, MD, 21801Abstract not available

Book review: the contemporary femme fatale: gender, genre and American cinema by Katherine Farrimond

In The Contemporary Femme Fatale: Gender, Genre and American Cinema, Katherine Farrimond shows how the femme fatale - primarily associated with the classic film noirs of the 1940s and 1950s – remains a remarkably resilient and malleable figure in the present, tracing her appearance across a variety of genres in contemporary US cinema. This is a well-argued, convincing study, writes Fiona Handyside, with a reading of the femme fatale that demonstrates her capacity to pose vital and complex questions about the representation of women’s agency, sexuality and desire in the current cultural landscape

Queer Filiations: Adaptation in the Films of Francois Ozon

Copyright © 2013 by SAGE PublicationsThe adaptation of canonical literary texts in cinema is often linked to a genre known as ‘heritage cinema’, a form associated especially with European cinema and used to promote a conservative vision of the nation as a site of heteronormative reproductive futurity. However, recalling Judith Butler’s assertion that all repetition carries within it the possibility of subversion, and, furthermore, that subversion requires repetition, adaptation reappears as a potentially queer textual activity. As Linda Hutcheon argues, adaptation is ‘repetition without replication’. Through a close reading of differing modes and techniques of adaptation in the films of François Ozon, this article will demonstrate that adaptation offers the possibility of imagining new relationalities and affective encounters beyond the heteronormative reproduction of the nation state

Initial Reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project, vol. 85

Covering Leg 85 of the cruises of the Drilling Vessel Glomar Challenger Los Angeles, California, to Honolulu, Hawaii March-April 1982. Includes six chapters: 1. INTRODUCTION: BACKGROUND AND EXPLANATORY NOTES, DEEP SEA DRILLING PROJECT LEG 85, CENTRAL EQUATORIAL PACIFIC 2. SITE 571 3. SITE 572 4. SITE 573 5. SITE 574 6. SITE 57

A model of social work practice in the New Zealand workplace : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirement for the degree of Master in Social Work, Massey University

This thesis is about the provision of social work services in the New Zealand workplace. A central line of argument is taken which proposes that the workplace, which up to now has been neglected as a site for social work practice, can become an important site for the provision of services. The development of a comprehensive model for occupational social work is the central feature of this thesis. Following the development of the model it is field tested in a case study involving a large employer. Located in the context of the development of New Zealand industrial relations, this thesis reviews the objections which have been raised when social workers become involved with a profit making organisation. Future possibilities for a specialised field of practice are proposed, making this thesis an early contribution to an analysis of the social work role in this setting

Multicolour interphase cytogenetics: 24 chromosome probes, 6 colours, 4 layers

From the late 1980s onwards, the use of DNA probes to visualise sequences on individual chromosomes (fluorescent in-situ hybridisation - FISH) revolutionised the study of cytogenetics. Following single colour experiments, more fluorochromes were added, culminating in a 24 colour assay that could distinguish all human chromosomes. Interphase cytogenetics (the detection of chromosome copy number in interphase nuclei) soon followed, however 24 colour experiments are hampered for this application as mixing fluorochromes to produce secondary colours produces images that are not easily distinguishable from overlapping signals. This study reports the development and use of a novel protocol, new fast hybridising FISH probes, and a bespoke image capture system for the assessment of chromosome copy number in interphase nuclei. The multicolour probe sets can be used individually or in sequential hybridisation layers to assess ploidy of all 24 human chromosomes in the same nucleus. Applications of this technique are in the investigation of chromosome copy number and the assessment of nuclear organisation for a range of different cell types including human sperm, cancer cells and preimplantation embryos