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Remembering the body: Deleuze's recollection-image, and the spectacle of physical memory in Yip Man/Ip Man(2008)
This article explores how Gilles Deleuzeâs conceptualization of the flashback, asârecollection-imageâ, can assist our understanding of the rendering spectacular of
physical memory in contemporary Chinese martial arts movies. The focus is a prominent flashback in the climactic duel in the kung fu movie, Yip Man/Ip Man (Yip, 2008). This recollection-image demonstrates how trained bodies in Chinese martial art movies suggest a slightly different understanding of time and affect from that which Deleuze formulated, based on his observation of US and European films. On textual, cultural and historical levels this article explores the usefulness of martial arts movies
for developing our understanding of physicality in cinema, and for reconsidering Deleuzeâs ideas in light of the Eurocentrism of some of his conclusions
Branded city living: Taipei becoming-Paris in Yi ye Taibei/Au Revoir Taipei (2010)
This article analyses Yi ye Taibei/Au Revoir Taipei (Chen, 2010). Due to its status as a co-production (with talent drawn from across borders, its various international funding sources and its deliberate appeal to global audiences through the festival circuit), the film is seen to provide a transnational perspective on Taipei. In this the filmâs relationship with a film tourism agenda, a branding process pursued by the Taipei authorities, is stressed. Au Revoir Taipeiâs consideration of life in Taipei, as a âbranded cityâ, is analysed in terms of its three becomings (becoming-Paris, becoming-imperceptible, becoming-dance), in relation to Gilles Deleuzeâs idea of the time-image (a striking example of which concludes the film) and itâs intertextual referencing of several âworldâ or âartâ cinema classics, including Jean-Luc Godardâs Bande Ă Part (1964). The filmâs transnational view of life in the branded city is thus understood to emerge at the conjunction of global production and distribution realities for film-making, and contemporary work and lifestyle opportunities in Taipei, the convergence of which create a cinematic construction of Taipei city that can be deciphered using Deleuzeâs concepts
Changes in A level history and re-establishing greater support for history in schools by university history departments
Paper given at History in Schools and Higher Education: Issues of Common Concern (second conference
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