Douglas Morrey
Biographic Data
| ID | 1638374 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Douglas Morrey |
| GIVEN NAMES | Douglas |
| FAMILY NAME | Morrey |
| SIGNATURE | MORREY D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Warwick |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Manifeste conspirationniste , Parti imaginaire, Comité invisible
Vanessa Springora, Gabriel Matzneff and the Problem of Consent
The publication of Vanessa Springora’s Le Consentement in January 2020, which led to the public shaming of the paedophile writer Gabriel Matzneff, has been seen as a key #MeToo moment in French culture. In her account of her adolescent relationship with Matzneff, Springora stops short of condemning all sex with minors and does not call for any strengthening of French laws around sexual consent. Does this imply a misplaced confidence, arguably sha…
From Confusion to Conversion
Submission (2015), a novel in which a Muslim political party is elected to govern France, has been widely interpreted as part of a ubiquitous discourse of "declinism" in contemporary French intellectual culture. The novel has been accused of complicity with a reactionary politics favoring a return to strong patriarchal authority and national pride, while the narrative of the triumph of political Islam is frequently interpreted as a thinly veiled …
La Nouvelle Vague, elle t’emm---!’ Louis Malle, Zazie dans le métro and the French New Wave
Zazie dans le métro (1960) appears as a quintessentially New Wave film with its youthful protagonist, its location shooting and its many references to cultural history. In addition, the self-conscious play with film technique in Zazie can be seen as a way of exploring the formal specificities of cinema. The film’s deployment of popular genre equates to Raymond Queneau’s use of demotic register and director Louis Malle takes a ludic approach to fi…
The Banality of Monstrosity
As so often with Houellebecq’s work, the shock and scandal of his most recent novel Soumission is not to be found where we might expect: despite the extraordinary coincidence of the book’s publication with the murderous Islamist attacks on Charlie Hebdo, Houellebecq imagines a proximate future in which France democratically elects a moderate Islamist party to government. Readers are asked to accept as logical developments that French citizens wil…
Encounters with Godard ethics, aesthetics, politics
Jean-Luc Godard, Cinema Historian
Michael Witt is an interesting test case for the current managerial research culture in UK higher education. Jean-Luc Godard, Cinema Historian is his first monograph, even though he completed his P
Le Creux de la Vague
Les Godelureaux (directed by Claude Chabrol, 1961) was one of the least successful films of the French New Wave. Almost universally derided by critics, the film did poorly at the box office and was seen to signal the decline or death of the Nouvelle Vague. Adapted from a novel by Éric Ollivier, the film alters its narrative in order to resemble other New Wave films, especially Les Cousins (Chabrol, 1959). But in doing so it also elides an intrigu…
Jacques Rivette
Cinema and Contact
Laura McMahon, London, MHRA/Maney/Legenda, 2012, 176 pp, £45.00, 978-1-907975-03-5 Laura McMahon's Cinema and Contact begins with the famous opening image from Ingmar Bergman's Persona (1966) of a
Perfect Crime, Absolute Evil
The french crime and science fiction novelist Maurice G. Dantec shares with Jean Baudrillard a profound Nietzschean inspiration and a postulation that the death of God has brought about a consequent murder of the real and the installation of twin illusions: that of an integral reality and that of personal freedom. Baudrillard's perfect crime becomes, for Dantec, the alibi for an absolute crime: the invisible and perfectly integrated acts of numer…
Secrets and Lies, or How (not) to write about Jacques Rivette
It has become a critical commonplace for writers on Jacques Rivette to lament - in addition to the difficulty of accessing some of his films - the paucity of critical writing on his work. Writing about Jacques Rivette is certainly scarce compared to the amount of criticism devoted to the leading lights of the New Wave, Godard and Truffaut, and even to the critical work on their less celebrated peers Claude Chabrol, Eric Rohmer and Agn s Varda. Wh…
Open Wounds
Quiet contradictions of celebrity
A B S T R A C T • The French soccer-player Zinedine Zidane is an emblematic sport star whose celebrity persona nevertheless remains opaque and open to debate. As a French citizen of Algerian origin, Zidane has come to embody many current French concerns over the integration of ethnic minorities and has, particularly since the World Cup Finals of 1998 and 2006, been subjected to intense scrutiny and interpretation. Despite such attention, however,…
Michel Houellebecq and the International Sexual Economy
This paper explores the notion of an ‘international sexual economy’ in the work of the French writer Michel Houellebecq, and particularly his latest novel, Plateforme (2001). Houellebecq suggests that, since westerners no longer have the time or the inclination to sleep with each other, and since those in the third world have nothing to sell but their bodies, the exchange of cash for sex on a truly international scale is likely to represent the m…
Sida-topies
La Nouvelle Vague, elle t’emm---!’ Louis Malle, Zazie dans le métro and the French New Wave
Zazie dans le métro (1960) appears as a quintessentially New Wave film with its youthful protagonist, its location shooting and its many references to cultural history. In addition, the self-conscious play with film technique in Zazie can be seen as a way of exploring the formal specificities of cinema. The film’s deployment of popular genre equates to Raymond Queneau’s use of demotic register and director Louis Malle takes a ludic approach to fi…
The Banality of Monstrosity
As so often with Houellebecq’s work, the shock and scandal of his most recent novel Soumission is not to be found where we might expect: despite the extraordinary coincidence of the book’s publication with the murderous Islamist attacks on Charlie Hebdo, Houellebecq imagines a proximate future in which France democratically elects a moderate Islamist party to government. Readers are asked to accept as logical developments that French citizens wil…
Quiet contradictions of celebrity
A B S T R A C T • The French soccer-player Zinedine Zidane is an emblematic sport star whose celebrity persona nevertheless remains opaque and open to debate. As a French citizen of Algerian origin, Zidane has come to embody many current French concerns over the integration of ethnic minorities and has, particularly since the World Cup Finals of 1998 and 2006, been subjected to intense scrutiny and interpretation. Despite such attention, however,…
Sida-topies
Michel Houellebecq and the International Sexual Economy
This paper explores the notion of an ‘international sexual economy’ in the work of the French writer Michel Houellebecq, and particularly his latest novel, Plateforme (2001). Houellebecq suggests that, since westerners no longer have the time or the inclination to sleep with each other, and since those in the third world have nothing to sell but their bodies, the exchange of cash for sex on a truly international scale is likely to represent the m…
Open Wounds
Quiet contradictions of celebrity
A B S T R A C T • The French soccer-player Zinedine Zidane is an emblematic sport star whose celebrity persona nevertheless remains opaque and open to debate. As a French citizen of Algerian origin, Zidane has come to embody many current French concerns over the integration of ethnic minorities and has, particularly since the World Cup Finals of 1998 and 2006, been subjected to intense scrutiny and interpretation. Despite such attention, however,…
Secrets and Lies, or How (not) to write about Jacques Rivette
It has become a critical commonplace for writers on Jacques Rivette to lament - in addition to the difficulty of accessing some of his films - the paucity of critical writing on his work. Writing about Jacques Rivette is certainly scarce compared to the amount of criticism devoted to the leading lights of the New Wave, Godard and Truffaut, and even to the critical work on their less celebrated peers Claude Chabrol, Eric Rohmer and Agn s Varda. Wh…
Perfect Crime, Absolute Evil
The french crime and science fiction novelist Maurice G. Dantec shares with Jean Baudrillard a profound Nietzschean inspiration and a postulation that the death of God has brought about a consequent murder of the real and the installation of twin illusions: that of an integral reality and that of personal freedom. Baudrillard's perfect crime becomes, for Dantec, the alibi for an absolute crime: the invisible and perfectly integrated acts of numer…
Jacques Rivette
Cinema and Contact
Laura McMahon, London, MHRA/Maney/Legenda, 2012, 176 pp, £45.00, 978-1-907975-03-5 Laura McMahon's Cinema and Contact begins with the famous opening image from Ingmar Bergman's Persona (1966) of a
Le Creux de la Vague
Les Godelureaux (directed by Claude Chabrol, 1961) was one of the least successful films of the French New Wave. Almost universally derided by critics, the film did poorly at the box office and was seen to signal the decline or death of the Nouvelle Vague. Adapted from a novel by Éric Ollivier, the film alters its narrative in order to resemble other New Wave films, especially Les Cousins (Chabrol, 1959). But in doing so it also elides an intrigu…
Jean-Luc Godard, Cinema Historian
Michael Witt is an interesting test case for the current managerial research culture in UK higher education. Jean-Luc Godard, Cinema Historian is his first monograph, even though he completed his P
Encounters with Godard ethics, aesthetics, politics
The Banality of Monstrosity
As so often with Houellebecq’s work, the shock and scandal of his most recent novel Soumission is not to be found where we might expect: despite the extraordinary coincidence of the book’s publication with the murderous Islamist attacks on Charlie Hebdo, Houellebecq imagines a proximate future in which France democratically elects a moderate Islamist party to government. Readers are asked to accept as logical developments that French citizens wil…
La Nouvelle Vague, elle t’emm---!’ Louis Malle, Zazie dans le métro and the French New Wave
Zazie dans le métro (1960) appears as a quintessentially New Wave film with its youthful protagonist, its location shooting and its many references to cultural history. In addition, the self-conscious play with film technique in Zazie can be seen as a way of exploring the formal specificities of cinema. The film’s deployment of popular genre equates to Raymond Queneau’s use of demotic register and director Louis Malle takes a ludic approach to fi…
From Confusion to Conversion
Submission (2015), a novel in which a Muslim political party is elected to govern France, has been widely interpreted as part of a ubiquitous discourse of "declinism" in contemporary French intellectual culture. The novel has been accused of complicity with a reactionary politics favoring a return to strong patriarchal authority and national pride, while the narrative of the triumph of political Islam is frequently interpreted as a thinly veiled …
Vanessa Springora, Gabriel Matzneff and the Problem of Consent
The publication of Vanessa Springora’s Le Consentement in January 2020, which led to the public shaming of the paedophile writer Gabriel Matzneff, has been seen as a key #MeToo moment in French culture. In her account of her adolescent relationship with Matzneff, Springora stops short of condemning all sex with minors and does not call for any strengthening of French laws around sexual consent. Does this imply a misplaced confidence, arguably sha…
Manifeste conspirationniste , Parti imaginaire, Comité invisible
Art (12 works) · Philosophy (9 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Art history (5 works) · French Historical and Cultural Studies (5 works) · French Literature and Critical Theory (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works)