Homay King
Biographic Data
| ID | 3866997 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Homay King |
| GIVEN NAMES | Homay |
| FAMILY NAME | King |
| SIGNATURE | KING H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bryn Mawr College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Forever Opaque
This article puts two concepts in dialogue: the French-Antillean theorist and poet Édouard Glissant's notion of “opacity” and the French psychoanalyst Jean Laplanche's notion of the “enigmatic signifier.” Together, these two thinkers question the fiction of a self that is transparent to itself, the desire to render the other transparent, and the idea that comprehension and understanding are prerequisites to living and working alongside one anothe…
Introduction
Floating Roots
This article traces one source of Agnès Varda's artistic inspiration to Jean “Yanco” Varda, the subject of her 1967 short film Uncle Yanco (US/France). Jean Varda was a peripatetic artist who lived on a houseboat and was part of a bohemian circle that included Henry Miller, Anaïs Nin, Alan Watts, and other luminaries of the San Francisco counterculture. Both Vardas were gleaners and artists. The author argues that both saw the imagination as a pl…
Anna May Wong and the Color Image
In Cinema 1, Deleuze proposes the “color-image,” a type of film image with an “absorbent characteristic” that does not refer to a particular object but seizes all that happens within its range. Like color-images, racial categories have an absorbent, seizing quality: they assert “color” at the expense of the object of representation. Deleuze does not address the potential applications of his concept to race, but they are especially illuminating wh…
Antiphon: Notes on the People's Microphone
Anabasis
October 01 2012 Anabasis Homay King Homay King HOMAY KING is associate professor of history of art at Bryn Mawr College. She is the author of Lost in Translation: Orientalism, Cinema, and the Enigmatic Signifier (Duke, 2010). Her essays on film, photography, and contemporary art have appeared in Afterall, Camera Obscura, Discourse, Film Quarterly, and The Quarterly Review of Film and Video. She is a member of the Camera Obscura editorial collecti…
Lost in Translation
In a nuanced exploration of how Western cinema has represented East Asia as a space of radical indecipherability, Homay King traces the long-standing association of the Orient with the enigmatic. The fantasy of an inscrutable East, she argues, is not merely a side note to film history, but rather a kernel of otherness that has shaped Hollywood cinema at its core. Through close readings of The Lady from Shanghai, Chinatown, Blade Runner, Lost in T…
Free Indirect Affect in Cassavetes' Opening Night and Faces
Homay King is assistant professor of History of Art at Bryn Mawr College, where she teaches film studies. She received her PhD from the University of California at Berkeley's rhetoric department in 2002. Her essay “The Sadness of the Gaze: Kubrick's Barry Lyndon” will appear in Kubrick in Perspective, a forthcoming collection from Cambridge University Press
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Free Indirect Affect in Cassavetes' Opening Night and Faces
Homay King is assistant professor of History of Art at Bryn Mawr College, where she teaches film studies. She received her PhD from the University of California at Berkeley's rhetoric department in 2002. Her essay “The Sadness of the Gaze: Kubrick's Barry Lyndon” will appear in Kubrick in Perspective, a forthcoming collection from Cambridge University Press
Lost in Translation
In a nuanced exploration of how Western cinema has represented East Asia as a space of radical indecipherability, Homay King traces the long-standing association of the Orient with the enigmatic. The fantasy of an inscrutable East, she argues, is not merely a side note to film history, but rather a kernel of otherness that has shaped Hollywood cinema at its core. Through close readings of The Lady from Shanghai, Chinatown, Blade Runner, Lost in T…
Antiphon: Notes on the People's Microphone
Anabasis
October 01 2012 Anabasis Homay King Homay King HOMAY KING is associate professor of history of art at Bryn Mawr College. She is the author of Lost in Translation: Orientalism, Cinema, and the Enigmatic Signifier (Duke, 2010). Her essays on film, photography, and contemporary art have appeared in Afterall, Camera Obscura, Discourse, Film Quarterly, and The Quarterly Review of Film and Video. She is a member of the Camera Obscura editorial collecti…
Introduction
Floating Roots
This article traces one source of Agnès Varda's artistic inspiration to Jean “Yanco” Varda, the subject of her 1967 short film Uncle Yanco (US/France). Jean Varda was a peripatetic artist who lived on a houseboat and was part of a bohemian circle that included Henry Miller, Anaïs Nin, Alan Watts, and other luminaries of the San Francisco counterculture. Both Vardas were gleaners and artists. The author argues that both saw the imagination as a pl…
Anna May Wong and the Color Image
In Cinema 1, Deleuze proposes the “color-image,” a type of film image with an “absorbent characteristic” that does not refer to a particular object but seizes all that happens within its range. Like color-images, racial categories have an absorbent, seizing quality: they assert “color” at the expense of the object of representation. Deleuze does not address the potential applications of his concept to race, but they are especially illuminating wh…
Forever Opaque
This article puts two concepts in dialogue: the French-Antillean theorist and poet Édouard Glissant's notion of “opacity” and the French psychoanalyst Jean Laplanche's notion of the “enigmatic signifier.” Together, these two thinkers question the fiction of a self that is transparent to itself, the desire to render the other transparent, and the idea that comprehension and understanding are prerequisites to living and working alongside one anothe…
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