Neil Narine
Biographic Data
| ID | 291340 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Neil Narine |
| GIVEN NAMES | Neil |
| FAMILY NAME | Narine |
| SIGNATURE | NARINE N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Simon Fraser University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Film sound and American cultural memory
One of the most dynamic discussions in memory studies concerns memory’s infusion with phantasy, which Freud also referred to as fantasy. This article examines how memory and fantasy intermingle in ways analogous to the ambivalent human experience of sound: sounds and musical cues can both trigger memories and be active in repressing them by encoding them into fantasmatic ‘counter memories’. Taking Alan J. Pakula’s film Sophie’s Choice (1982) as a…
Global Trauma and Narrative Cinema
This article examines how the global traumas of resource-driven conflicts and acts of terrorism are mapped in 21st-century US and UK narrative cinema, and suggests that guilt, elicited in the implied Western viewer, is displaced in the films onto images of Western women. Revisiting Mulvey's influential theory of 'visual pleasure' through the 'male gaze', this article analyses the films Traffic (2000), a depiction of US complicity with global drug…
The Turbulent Rise of the “Child Gamer”
This paper examines depictions of the “cyberchild,” and the child at risk in Hollywood films and television advertisements portraying children's digital gaming. We examine fears of digital play and adjoining hopes for its conversion into a “productive” and educational practice. We find evidence of a stiflingly polarized conflict over children's digital gaming: young gamers are either delinquent and violent, or naturally adept “cyberchildren” with…
Global Trauma and Narrative Cinema
This article examines how the global traumas of resource-driven conflicts and acts of terrorism are mapped in 21st-century US and UK narrative cinema, and suggests that guilt, elicited in the implied Western viewer, is displaced in the films onto images of Western women. Revisiting Mulvey's influential theory of 'visual pleasure' through the 'male gaze', this article analyses the films Traffic (2000), a depiction of US complicity with global drug…
The Turbulent Rise of the “Child Gamer”
This paper examines depictions of the “cyberchild,” and the child at risk in Hollywood films and television advertisements portraying children's digital gaming. We examine fears of digital play and adjoining hopes for its conversion into a “productive” and educational practice. We find evidence of a stiflingly polarized conflict over children's digital gaming: young gamers are either delinquent and violent, or naturally adept “cyberchildren” with…
The Turbulent Rise of the “Child Gamer”
This paper examines depictions of the “cyberchild,” and the child at risk in Hollywood films and television advertisements portraying children's digital gaming. We examine fears of digital play and adjoining hopes for its conversion into a “productive” and educational practice. We find evidence of a stiflingly polarized conflict over children's digital gaming: young gamers are either delinquent and violent, or naturally adept “cyberchildren” with…
Film sound and American cultural memory
One of the most dynamic discussions in memory studies concerns memory’s infusion with phantasy, which Freud also referred to as fantasy. This article examines how memory and fantasy intermingle in ways analogous to the ambivalent human experience of sound: sounds and musical cues can both trigger memories and be active in repressing them by encoding them into fantasmatic ‘counter memories’. Taking Alan J. Pakula’s film Sophie’s Choice (1982) as a…
Global Trauma and Narrative Cinema
This article examines how the global traumas of resource-driven conflicts and acts of terrorism are mapped in 21st-century US and UK narrative cinema, and suggests that guilt, elicited in the implied Western viewer, is displaced in the films onto images of Western women. Revisiting Mulvey's influential theory of 'visual pleasure' through the 'male gaze', this article analyses the films Traffic (2000), a depiction of US complicity with global drug…
History (3 works) · History (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Cinema and Media Studies (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Media studies (2 works)