Paul Willemen
Biographic Data
| ID | 4987402 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paul Willemen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paul |
| FAMILY NAME | Willemen |
| SIGNATURE | WILLEMEN P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Edinburgh Napier University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 49 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1971 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Indexicality, fantasy and the digital
In this landmark essay, Paul Willemen returns to several concerns he has worked with from some of his earliest writings. He revisits the concept of indexicality in ways that echo his explorations of inner speech and cinephilia, now made more urgent in the context of digital technology. The essay strongly argues that while the cinema needs to be viewed primarily as an indexical process, film has never consisted of indices only, and, more important…
Historical memorandum
This short memorandum was written as a set of notes in preparation for the Third Cinema conference that Willemen organized along with Jim Pines at Edinburgh in 1986, and was used by him to make his opening speech. It has never been previously published, and remains a critical document in this effort to relocate the concept of Third Cinema beyond its Latin American origins, and within radical practices across the three worlds
Introduction to Subjectivity and Fantasy in Action
Originally written as an introduction to Willemen's unpublished book of essays, this paper provides perhaps the most concise outline available of what he meant by the concept “comparative film studies”. Making a strong case for why all thinking on film should once and for all jettison the discredited framework that saw films at the intersection of national specificity and universal values, Willemen proposes that we replace that intersection as an…
Preliminary conclusions
In the concluding essay of his unpublished explorations on Comparative Film Studies, Willemen posits a series of bold strategies to arrive at a theory of value, which would enable him to claim relevance to all geopolitical frameworks that are beset both directly and indirectly by the workings of Euro-American capitalism. Willemen recognizes that the historical frame within which questions of value have to be located is a little different from the…
The zoom in popular cinema
This brief essay on the zoom shot is something of a companion essay to Paul Willemen's more famous “Detouring through Korean cinema”, published in Inter-Asia Cultural Studies (Vol. 3, no. 2: 167–186) where he explored the consequences of the freeze-frame. The zoom is viewed as a rhetorical device, a signifier of narratorial performance, and as such evokes a long-discussed question of literary theory, namely the “marks of enunciation” associated w…
A critical comment on the Iacs journal
The times of subjectivity and social reproduction
A reflection on the reasons why we take films such as Hou’s as cherished cinephilic objects and on the ways that we, as critics, often try to disguise our desiring relation to films. Keywords: Cinephiliaidentitysubjectivityaesthetic formHou Hsiao‐Hsien Notes 1. In a remarkable essay, Chua Beng Huat tried to circumscribe an East Asian public sphere by tracing a voice speaking of cultural‐economic connectivity through the circulation of the most ba…
Theorising National Cinema
For a comparative film studies
The paper argues that the comparative approach to the study of modern cultural forms should be founded on the common experience but divergent histories of the development of a capitalist mode of production and the impact of its reformatting dynamics on social, including cultural, relations. The paper then goes on to explore and propose a number of probably inevitable theoretical frameworks and tools to implement a comparative approach to the stud…
Detouring through Korean cinema
The discipline of comparative literature and its emphasis on ethno-linguistic units ‘to be compared’ seems quite inappropriate as a model for approaching the study of a thoroughly industrialized cultural form such as cinema. There is no need even to recall the complicity between comparative literature and comparative religion and that Goethe’s notion of ‘world literature’ gestured towards the alleged universality of Western-Christian values as th…
The Savage Freud and Other Essays on Possible and Retrievable Selves
The Savage Freud and Other Essays on Possible and Retrievable Selves. Ashis Nandy Princeton: Princeton University Press 1995, 275pp
Negotiating the transition to capitalism
The critical recovery of Douglas Sirk's work in the early 1970s sparked a renewal of interest in melodrama in film studies and in popular culture theories. Subsequently, under the impetus of a certain genre of feminist cultural politics, allied with an emphasis on the complexities of consumption (not to say consumerism) and a desire to reevaluate areas of cultural production of which women were said to be the dominant consumers, this interest in …
The Making of an African Cinema
Bangkok-Bahrain to Berlin-Jerusalem
Journal Article Bangkok–Bahrain to Berlin–Jerusalem: Amos Gitai's editing Get access Paul Willemen Paul Willemen Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Screen, Volume 33, Issue 1, Spring 1992, Pages 14–26, https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/33.1.14 Published: 01 March 1992
Cinematic Discourse - The Problem of Inner Speech
Journal Article Cinematic Discourse - The Problem of Inner Speech Get access Paul Willemen Paul Willemen Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Screen, Volume 22, Issue 3, September 1981, Pages 63–93, https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/22.3.63 Published: 01 September 1981
Letter to John
Letter to John Get access Paul Willemen Paul Willemen Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Screen, Volume 21, Issue 2, Summer 1980, Pages 53–65, https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/21.2.53 Published: 01 July 1980
Problems of Independent Cinema
Problems of Independent Cinema Get access Marc Karlin, Marc Karlin Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Claire Johnston, Claire Johnston Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Mark Nash, Mark Nash Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Paul Willemen Paul Willemen Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Screen, V…
Notes on Subjectivity
Brecht in Britain
Journal Article Brecht in Britain: The Independent Political Film (on The Nightcleaners) Get access Claire Johnston, Claire Johnston Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Paul Willemen Paul Willemen Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Screen, Volume 16, Issue 4, Winter 1975, Pages 101–118, https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/16.4.101 Published: 01 December 1975
Reflections on Eikhenbaum's Concept of Internal Speech in the Cinema
Journal Article Reflections on Eikhenbaum's Concept of Internal Speech in the Cinema Get access Paul Willemen Paul Willemen Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Screen, Volume 15, Issue 4, Winter 1974, Pages 59–70, https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/15.4.59 Published: 01 December 1974
Penthesilea, Queen of the Amazons
Journal Article Penthesilea, Queen of the Amazons Get access Laura Mulvey, Laura Mulvey Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Peter Wollen, Peter Wollen Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Claire Johnston, Claire Johnston Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Paul Willemen Paul Willemen Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academ…
Towards an Analysis of the Sirkian System
Journal Article Towards an Analysis of the Sirkian System Get access Paul Willemen Paul Willemen Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Screen, Volume 13, Issue 4, Winter 1972, Pages 128–134, https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/13.4.128 Published: 01 December 1972
On realism in the cinema
On realism in the cinema Paul Willemen Paul Willemen Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Screen, Volume 13, Issue 1, Spring 1972, Pages 37–44, https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/13.1.37 Published: 01 March 1972
Distanciation and Douglas Sirk
Distanciation and Douglas Sirk Get access Paul Willemen Paul Willemen Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Screen, Volume 12, Issue 2, Summer 1971, Pages 63–67, https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/12.2.63 Published: 01 July 1971
Distanciation and Douglas Sirk
Distanciation and Douglas Sirk Get access Paul Willemen Paul Willemen Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Screen, Volume 12, Issue 2, Summer 1971, Pages 63–67, https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/12.2.63 Published: 01 July 1971
Notes on Subjectivity
For a comparative film studies
The paper argues that the comparative approach to the study of modern cultural forms should be founded on the common experience but divergent histories of the development of a capitalist mode of production and the impact of its reformatting dynamics on social, including cultural, relations. The paper then goes on to explore and propose a number of probably inevitable theoretical frameworks and tools to implement a comparative approach to the stud…
Introduction to Subjectivity and Fantasy in Action
Originally written as an introduction to Willemen's unpublished book of essays, this paper provides perhaps the most concise outline available of what he meant by the concept “comparative film studies”. Making a strong case for why all thinking on film should once and for all jettison the discredited framework that saw films at the intersection of national specificity and universal values, Willemen proposes that we replace that intersection as an…
Brecht in Britain
Journal Article Brecht in Britain: The Independent Political Film (on The Nightcleaners) Get access Claire Johnston, Claire Johnston Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Paul Willemen Paul Willemen Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Screen, Volume 16, Issue 4, Winter 1975, Pages 101–118, https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/16.4.101 Published: 01 December 1975
Towards an Analysis of the Sirkian System
Journal Article Towards an Analysis of the Sirkian System Get access Paul Willemen Paul Willemen Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Screen, Volume 13, Issue 4, Winter 1972, Pages 128–134, https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/13.4.128 Published: 01 December 1972
On realism in the cinema
On realism in the cinema Paul Willemen Paul Willemen Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Screen, Volume 13, Issue 1, Spring 1972, Pages 37–44, https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/13.1.37 Published: 01 March 1972
Detouring through Korean cinema
The discipline of comparative literature and its emphasis on ethno-linguistic units ‘to be compared’ seems quite inappropriate as a model for approaching the study of a thoroughly industrialized cultural form such as cinema. There is no need even to recall the complicity between comparative literature and comparative religion and that Goethe’s notion of ‘world literature’ gestured towards the alleged universality of Western-Christian values as th…
The Savage Freud and Other Essays on Possible and Retrievable Selves
The Savage Freud and Other Essays on Possible and Retrievable Selves. Ashis Nandy Princeton: Princeton University Press 1995, 275pp
Preliminary conclusions
In the concluding essay of his unpublished explorations on Comparative Film Studies, Willemen posits a series of bold strategies to arrive at a theory of value, which would enable him to claim relevance to all geopolitical frameworks that are beset both directly and indirectly by the workings of Euro-American capitalism. Willemen recognizes that the historical frame within which questions of value have to be located is a little different from the…
Historical memorandum
This short memorandum was written as a set of notes in preparation for the Third Cinema conference that Willemen organized along with Jim Pines at Edinburgh in 1986, and was used by him to make his opening speech. It has never been previously published, and remains a critical document in this effort to relocate the concept of Third Cinema beyond its Latin American origins, and within radical practices across the three worlds
The Making of an African Cinema
Bangkok-Bahrain to Berlin-Jerusalem
Journal Article Bangkok–Bahrain to Berlin–Jerusalem: Amos Gitai's editing Get access Paul Willemen Paul Willemen Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Screen, Volume 33, Issue 1, Spring 1992, Pages 14–26, https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/33.1.14 Published: 01 March 1992
Cinematic Discourse - The Problem of Inner Speech
Journal Article Cinematic Discourse - The Problem of Inner Speech Get access Paul Willemen Paul Willemen Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Screen, Volume 22, Issue 3, September 1981, Pages 63–93, https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/22.3.63 Published: 01 September 1981
Letter to John
Letter to John Get access Paul Willemen Paul Willemen Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Screen, Volume 21, Issue 2, Summer 1980, Pages 53–65, https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/21.2.53 Published: 01 July 1980
Problems of Independent Cinema
Problems of Independent Cinema Get access Marc Karlin, Marc Karlin Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Claire Johnston, Claire Johnston Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Mark Nash, Mark Nash Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Paul Willemen Paul Willemen Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Screen, V…
Distanciation and Douglas Sirk
Distanciation and Douglas Sirk Get access Paul Willemen Paul Willemen Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Screen, Volume 12, Issue 2, Summer 1971, Pages 63–67, https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/12.2.63 Published: 01 July 1971
Towards an Analysis of the Sirkian System
Journal Article Towards an Analysis of the Sirkian System Get access Paul Willemen Paul Willemen Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Screen, Volume 13, Issue 4, Winter 1972, Pages 128–134, https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/13.4.128 Published: 01 December 1972
On realism in the cinema
On realism in the cinema Paul Willemen Paul Willemen Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Screen, Volume 13, Issue 1, Spring 1972, Pages 37–44, https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/13.1.37 Published: 01 March 1972
Reflections on Eikhenbaum's Concept of Internal Speech in the Cinema
Journal Article Reflections on Eikhenbaum's Concept of Internal Speech in the Cinema Get access Paul Willemen Paul Willemen Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Screen, Volume 15, Issue 4, Winter 1974, Pages 59–70, https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/15.4.59 Published: 01 December 1974
Penthesilea, Queen of the Amazons
Journal Article Penthesilea, Queen of the Amazons Get access Laura Mulvey, Laura Mulvey Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Peter Wollen, Peter Wollen Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Claire Johnston, Claire Johnston Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Paul Willemen Paul Willemen Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academ…
Brecht in Britain
Journal Article Brecht in Britain: The Independent Political Film (on The Nightcleaners) Get access Claire Johnston, Claire Johnston Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Paul Willemen Paul Willemen Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Screen, Volume 16, Issue 4, Winter 1975, Pages 101–118, https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/16.4.101 Published: 01 December 1975
Notes on Subjectivity
Letter to John
Letter to John Get access Paul Willemen Paul Willemen Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Screen, Volume 21, Issue 2, Summer 1980, Pages 53–65, https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/21.2.53 Published: 01 July 1980
Problems of Independent Cinema
Problems of Independent Cinema Get access Marc Karlin, Marc Karlin Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Claire Johnston, Claire Johnston Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Mark Nash, Mark Nash Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Paul Willemen Paul Willemen Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Screen, V…
Cinematic Discourse - The Problem of Inner Speech
Journal Article Cinematic Discourse - The Problem of Inner Speech Get access Paul Willemen Paul Willemen Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Screen, Volume 22, Issue 3, September 1981, Pages 63–93, https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/22.3.63 Published: 01 September 1981
The Making of an African Cinema
Bangkok-Bahrain to Berlin-Jerusalem
Journal Article Bangkok–Bahrain to Berlin–Jerusalem: Amos Gitai's editing Get access Paul Willemen Paul Willemen Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Screen, Volume 33, Issue 1, Spring 1992, Pages 14–26, https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/33.1.14 Published: 01 March 1992
Negotiating the transition to capitalism
The critical recovery of Douglas Sirk's work in the early 1970s sparked a renewal of interest in melodrama in film studies and in popular culture theories. Subsequently, under the impetus of a certain genre of feminist cultural politics, allied with an emphasis on the complexities of consumption (not to say consumerism) and a desire to reevaluate areas of cultural production of which women were said to be the dominant consumers, this interest in …
The Savage Freud and Other Essays on Possible and Retrievable Selves
The Savage Freud and Other Essays on Possible and Retrievable Selves. Ashis Nandy Princeton: Princeton University Press 1995, 275pp
Detouring through Korean cinema
The discipline of comparative literature and its emphasis on ethno-linguistic units ‘to be compared’ seems quite inappropriate as a model for approaching the study of a thoroughly industrialized cultural form such as cinema. There is no need even to recall the complicity between comparative literature and comparative religion and that Goethe’s notion of ‘world literature’ gestured towards the alleged universality of Western-Christian values as th…
For a comparative film studies
The paper argues that the comparative approach to the study of modern cultural forms should be founded on the common experience but divergent histories of the development of a capitalist mode of production and the impact of its reformatting dynamics on social, including cultural, relations. The paper then goes on to explore and propose a number of probably inevitable theoretical frameworks and tools to implement a comparative approach to the stud…
Theorising National Cinema
The times of subjectivity and social reproduction
A reflection on the reasons why we take films such as Hou’s as cherished cinephilic objects and on the ways that we, as critics, often try to disguise our desiring relation to films. Keywords: Cinephiliaidentitysubjectivityaesthetic formHou Hsiao‐Hsien Notes 1. In a remarkable essay, Chua Beng Huat tried to circumscribe an East Asian public sphere by tracing a voice speaking of cultural‐economic connectivity through the circulation of the most ba…
A critical comment on the Iacs journal
Indexicality, fantasy and the digital
In this landmark essay, Paul Willemen returns to several concerns he has worked with from some of his earliest writings. He revisits the concept of indexicality in ways that echo his explorations of inner speech and cinephilia, now made more urgent in the context of digital technology. The essay strongly argues that while the cinema needs to be viewed primarily as an indexical process, film has never consisted of indices only, and, more important…
Historical memorandum
This short memorandum was written as a set of notes in preparation for the Third Cinema conference that Willemen organized along with Jim Pines at Edinburgh in 1986, and was used by him to make his opening speech. It has never been previously published, and remains a critical document in this effort to relocate the concept of Third Cinema beyond its Latin American origins, and within radical practices across the three worlds
Introduction to Subjectivity and Fantasy in Action
Originally written as an introduction to Willemen's unpublished book of essays, this paper provides perhaps the most concise outline available of what he meant by the concept “comparative film studies”. Making a strong case for why all thinking on film should once and for all jettison the discredited framework that saw films at the intersection of national specificity and universal values, Willemen proposes that we replace that intersection as an…
Preliminary conclusions
In the concluding essay of his unpublished explorations on Comparative Film Studies, Willemen posits a series of bold strategies to arrive at a theory of value, which would enable him to claim relevance to all geopolitical frameworks that are beset both directly and indirectly by the workings of Euro-American capitalism. Willemen recognizes that the historical frame within which questions of value have to be located is a little different from the…
The zoom in popular cinema
This brief essay on the zoom shot is something of a companion essay to Paul Willemen's more famous “Detouring through Korean cinema”, published in Inter-Asia Cultural Studies (Vol. 3, no. 2: 167–186) where he explored the consequences of the freeze-frame. The zoom is viewed as a rhetorical device, a signifier of narratorial performance, and as such evokes a long-discussed question of literary theory, namely the “marks of enunciation” associated w…
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