Laleen Jayamanne

Biographic Data

ID3693007
NAMELaleen Jayamanne
GIVEN NAMESLaleen
FAMILY NAMEJayamanne
SIGNATUREJAYAMANNE L
AFFILIATIONSThe University of Sydney
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS8
TOTAL CITATIONS3
AUTHOR COUNT8
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1992
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2022
H-INDEX1

  • A Critical Film Zone on Zoom

    Open AccessLaleen JayamanneARTICLEBioScope South Asian Screen Studies2022

    Quite by chance, participating in Zoom webinars on two recent films about Sri Lanka, Funny Boy and The Single Tumbler , opened up an unexpected and surprising research problem. This was especially surprising because neither of the webinars were organised from within academic film studies

  • Meaghan's Voice

    Open AccessLaleen JayamanneARTICLECultural Studies Review2018

    Meaghan's Voice by Laleen Jayamanne, 2018

  • To Derail Thinking

    Laleen JayamanneARTICLECultural Studies2013

    This essay engenders its methodology by using the theory and practice of a master Indian avant-garde filmmaker, Kumar Shahani. It crafts a methodological tool as a conceptual lens with which to discuss Shahani's practice in Maya Darpan and Baz Lurhmann's in Australia. Through the yoking together of two divergent cinematic practices within the Asia Pacific zone of contact, this essay does two things: (1) Poses general questions about cinema and th…

  • To sing and to dance, to think and to fight

    Laleen JayamanneARTICLEInter-Asia Cultural Studies2012Cited by: 1References: 3

    This two-part essay is on the erotics of pedagogy or education of the senses through learning how to learn from images and sounds of cinema as manifestations of rhythm. Part one creates a conceptual framework derived from the archives on Neurological Modernity and Theatre Anthropology, so as to develop the concept of a "Second Nervous System" which animates performers in the great Asian and European civilizational traditions of performance. Their…

  • The drover's wives and camp couture

    Laleen JayamanneARTICLEStudies In Australasian Cinema2010

    This article frames Baz Luhrmann's Australia (2008) in terms of the texture of the image and its mode of acting. Through this twofold movement it elaborates on the compositional features of the image and theorizes the mode of acting as a variant of burlesque performance: acting in strobe. Through this framing, some of the unique features of Bazmark's camp aesthetic are mapped out and Catherine Martin's contribution to it is also acknowledged. Thr…

  • Pursuing Micromovements in Room 202

    Laleen JayamanneARTICLESigns: Journal of Women in…2004References: 1

  • Hunger for Images, Myths of Femininity in Sri Lankan Cinema 1947–1989

    Laleen JayamanneARTICLEComparative Studies of South Asia…1992Cited by: 1

    Research Article| May 01 1992 Hunger for Images, Myths of Femininity in Sri Lankan Cinema 1947–1989 Laleen Jayamanne Laleen Jayamanne Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1992) 12 (1): 57–75. https://doi.org/10.1215/07323867-12-1-57 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Laleen Jayamanne; Hunger for Images, Myths of Femininity in…

  • Sri Lankan family melodrama

    Laleen JayamanneARTICLEScreen1992Cited by: 1

    Journal Article Sri Lankan family melodrama: a cinema of primitive attractions Get access Laleen Jayamanne Laleen Jayamanne Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Screen, Volume 33, Issue 2, Summer 1992, Pages 145–153, https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/33.2.145 Published: 01 July 1992