Jill Arnott
Biographic Data
| ID | 1245583 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jill Arnott |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jill |
| FAMILY NAME | Arnott |
| SIGNATURE | ARNOTT J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of KwaZulu-Natal |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 2 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The anxiety of affect: Melodrama and South African film studies
This paper argues that the realist approach typically adopted in South African film studies reduces films to message‐bearing narratives in a way that ignores the specificity of the medium. Conversely, melodrama both as cinematic genre and as expressive register explicitly draws our attention away from issues of right representation to other neglected but essential dimensions of cinema. We argue that, far from being morally reductive or politicall…
Body, text, materiality: Reading the gendered subaltern
Feminist concerns about the political consequences of a focus on the material body as an interpretable text continue to be of importance in postcolonial studies. In this paper I argue that the work of postcolonial theorist Gayatri Spivak1 offers examples of a mode of reading that uses what Judith Butler calls the “sexed specificity of the female body” to mark the limits of existing discourses of analysis and of resistance, but without finally gro…
The anxiety of affect: Melodrama and South African film studies
This paper argues that the realist approach typically adopted in South African film studies reduces films to message‐bearing narratives in a way that ignores the specificity of the medium. Conversely, melodrama both as cinematic genre and as expressive register explicitly draws our attention away from issues of right representation to other neglected but essential dimensions of cinema. We argue that, far from being morally reductive or politicall…
Body, text, materiality: Reading the gendered subaltern
Feminist concerns about the political consequences of a focus on the material body as an interpretable text continue to be of importance in postcolonial studies. In this paper I argue that the work of postcolonial theorist Gayatri Spivak1 offers examples of a mode of reading that uses what Judith Butler calls the “sexed specificity of the female body” to mark the limits of existing discourses of analysis and of resistance, but without finally gro…
The anxiety of affect: Melodrama and South African film studies
This paper argues that the realist approach typically adopted in South African film studies reduces films to message‐bearing narratives in a way that ignores the specificity of the medium. Conversely, melodrama both as cinematic genre and as expressive register explicitly draws our attention away from issues of right representation to other neglected but essential dimensions of cinema. We argue that, far from being morally reductive or politicall…
Aesthetics (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · South Asian Cinema and Culture (2 works) · African studies and sociopolitical issues (1 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (1 works)