Dominic Lash
Biographic Data
| ID | 1339983 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dominic Lash |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dominic |
| FAMILY NAME | Lash |
| SIGNATURE | LASH D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bristol |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9840-2571 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Towards an account of rhythmic phrasing in narrative film
Three responses to ‘Bazin's third hand’
Film Theory
This chapter discusses four notable books concerning film theory that were published in 2023 and early 2024. Two of them are translated from languages other than English, and two are wide-ranging edited collections. The chapter is divided into five sections: 1. Nicole Brenez, On the Figure in General and the Body in Particular: Figurative Invention in Cinema, trans. by Ted Fendt; 2. Shiguéhiko Hasumi, Directed by Yasujirō Ozu, trans. by Ryan Cook…
Scenes of Instruction
This article explores Martin Scorsese’s 1982 film The King of Comedy, focussing chiefly on its central character, Rupert Pupkin (played by Robert de Niro). Drawing on the work of Ludwig Wittgenstein and those influenced by him (notably G.E.M. Anscombe and Stanley Cavell), it argues for a “partial idealism” centred on phenomena such as promises and manners, whose basis is in shared human practices of education and conduct. This idea is explored vi…
Not Yet the Last
Film Theory
This chapter discusses three notable books concerning film theory that were published in 2022 which are particularly significant in what they reveal about the current understanding of form within the discipline. The chapter is divided into four sections: 1. Kyle Stevens (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Film Theory; 2. Eugenie Brinkema, Life-Destroying Diagrams; 3. Jordan Schonig, The Shape of Motion: Cinema and the Aesthetics of Movement. 4. Conclus…
V.F. Perkins and the redescription of films
This article explores the work of the critic V.F. Perkins in the light of the concept of description, and vice versa. It argues that a range of distinct senses of description come together in Perkins’s work, and uses that work to assist in the construction of some proposals about the function and value of description in films and film criticism. Perkins had, it is argued, a particular interest in films that explore what might be referred to as ‘f…
Film Theory
This chapter discusses six notable books published in 2021 (with the exception of Shane Denson’s work, published in late 2020), chosen so as to illustrate both the depth and the breadth of the year’s work in film theory and criticism. It is divided into seven sections: 1. Shane Denson, Discorrelated Images; 2. Adriana Gordjuela, Flashbacks in Film; 3. Paul Coates, Comparative Cinema; 4. Anna Backman Rogers, Still Life; 5. Daniel Morgan, The Lure …
Rupture, Suture, Nietzsche
The concept of suture has long been an important and controversial concept in investigations of the relationships between narrative, diegesis, character, and spectator. The dominant understanding of suture has paid more attention to its Lacanian derivation – and to the account given by Daniel Dayan – than to the work of Jean-Pierre Oudart which first introduced suture into Film Studies. This article, however, follows the recent work of George But…
The Cinema of Disorientation
The Cinema of Disorientation
Perhaps because they are so immediately absorbing, narrative films can also be profoundly confusing and disorienting. This fascinating book neither proposes fool-proof methods for avoiding confusion, nor does it suggest that disorientation is always a virtue. Instead, it argues that the best way to come to terms with our confusion is to look closely at exactly what is confusing us, and why. At the heart of the book are original close readings of …
The Dangers of Getting What You Asked For
The third season of Twin Peaks is chock full of uncanny, disturbing – and disturbingly humorous – doubles, most notably of its central character, played by Kyle McLachlan. This article argues that the series itself is also a kind of double, because it takes advantage of the almost unique situation in which a beloved show is continued after a quarter-century absence to superimpose itself on the new versions of Twin Peaks its fans have fantasized i…
Film as Film in the twenty-first century
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Film as Film in the twenty-first century
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The Cinema of Disorientation
The Cinema of Disorientation
Perhaps because they are so immediately absorbing, narrative films can also be profoundly confusing and disorienting. This fascinating book neither proposes fool-proof methods for avoiding confusion, nor does it suggest that disorientation is always a virtue. Instead, it argues that the best way to come to terms with our confusion is to look closely at exactly what is confusing us, and why. At the heart of the book are original close readings of …
The Dangers of Getting What You Asked For
The third season of Twin Peaks is chock full of uncanny, disturbing – and disturbingly humorous – doubles, most notably of its central character, played by Kyle McLachlan. This article argues that the series itself is also a kind of double, because it takes advantage of the almost unique situation in which a beloved show is continued after a quarter-century absence to superimpose itself on the new versions of Twin Peaks its fans have fantasized i…
Rupture, Suture, Nietzsche
The concept of suture has long been an important and controversial concept in investigations of the relationships between narrative, diegesis, character, and spectator. The dominant understanding of suture has paid more attention to its Lacanian derivation – and to the account given by Daniel Dayan – than to the work of Jean-Pierre Oudart which first introduced suture into Film Studies. This article, however, follows the recent work of George But…
Film Theory
This chapter discusses six notable books published in 2021 (with the exception of Shane Denson’s work, published in late 2020), chosen so as to illustrate both the depth and the breadth of the year’s work in film theory and criticism. It is divided into seven sections: 1. Shane Denson, Discorrelated Images; 2. Adriana Gordjuela, Flashbacks in Film; 3. Paul Coates, Comparative Cinema; 4. Anna Backman Rogers, Still Life; 5. Daniel Morgan, The Lure …
Film Theory
This chapter discusses three notable books concerning film theory that were published in 2022 which are particularly significant in what they reveal about the current understanding of form within the discipline. The chapter is divided into four sections: 1. Kyle Stevens (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Film Theory; 2. Eugenie Brinkema, Life-Destroying Diagrams; 3. Jordan Schonig, The Shape of Motion: Cinema and the Aesthetics of Movement. 4. Conclus…
V.F. Perkins and the redescription of films
This article explores the work of the critic V.F. Perkins in the light of the concept of description, and vice versa. It argues that a range of distinct senses of description come together in Perkins’s work, and uses that work to assist in the construction of some proposals about the function and value of description in films and film criticism. Perkins had, it is argued, a particular interest in films that explore what might be referred to as ‘f…
Film Theory
This chapter discusses four notable books concerning film theory that were published in 2023 and early 2024. Two of them are translated from languages other than English, and two are wide-ranging edited collections. The chapter is divided into five sections: 1. Nicole Brenez, On the Figure in General and the Body in Particular: Figurative Invention in Cinema, trans. by Ted Fendt; 2. Shiguéhiko Hasumi, Directed by Yasujirō Ozu, trans. by Ryan Cook…
Scenes of Instruction
This article explores Martin Scorsese’s 1982 film The King of Comedy, focussing chiefly on its central character, Rupert Pupkin (played by Robert de Niro). Drawing on the work of Ludwig Wittgenstein and those influenced by him (notably G.E.M. Anscombe and Stanley Cavell), it argues for a “partial idealism” centred on phenomena such as promises and manners, whose basis is in shared human practices of education and conduct. This idea is explored vi…
Not Yet the Last
Towards an account of rhythmic phrasing in narrative film
Three responses to ‘Bazin's third hand’
Art (9 works) · Cinema and Media Studies (7 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · Art history (5 works) · Literature (5 works) · Movie theater (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Narrative (4 works)