Lisa Coulthard
Biographic Data
| ID | 642883 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lisa Coulthard |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lisa |
| FAMILY NAME | Coulthard |
| SIGNATURE | COULTHARD L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of British Columbia |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Architectures of violence
The hotel is a key setting for Hollywood’s fight sequences, which we argue are always determined, framed, and understood through spatial orientation and architectural setting. Offering both private and public spaces, the upscale hotel offers a compendium of the contemporary action film’s fight scenes in one locale. Foregrounding a compelling fantasy of extravagance and mobility, the luxury hotel fight is foundational to the resilience of action h…
The Listening Detective
This essay argues that in extending the audiovisual convention of “thinking music” and focusing it on the traumatized mind of the female detective, crime series such as Top of the Lake (2013–), Marcella (2016–), and From Darkness (2015–) present female knowledge as fundamentally emotional, even irrational. In these series, the female detective is victimized, traumatized, troubled, and her thinking music is distorted, discordant, affectively charg…
Broken Bodies/Inquiring Minds
This special issue concentrates on a dominant trend in contemporary transnational crime television: quality dramas featuring serial criminals who break the bodies/psyches of young women or children, thereby attracting the inquiries of female detectives who have suffered trauma themselves. This trend has generated resources, industrial partnerships, avid viewers, and, importantly for the authors here, feminist commentary across continents. We refr…
Desublimating monstrous desire
Known for graphic gore and formal experimentation, films of European new extremism stand out for the way in which they combine sex with violence, stressing the body in extreme modes of being and rendering its materiality emphatic, uncanny and profoundly disturbing. While this emphasis on sex and violence has been widely recognized in scholarly literature on new extremism, its connections to gendered conventions of genre cinema have not. In this a…
Violence makes victims of us all
Starting with Jacques Ranciere's analysis of 'The Ethical Turn of Aesthetics and Politics', this article analyses the role of ethics, vengeance and victimhood in Clint Eastwood's Mystic River . In his brief commentary on the film, Ranciere uses Mystic River as an illustration of what he sees as a problematic moralistic turn in contemporary American politics and culture that conflates victims and violators and advocates for vigilante justice. Argu…
Desublimating Desire
In its sexually explicit contemplation of romance, desire and violence, Catherine Breillat’s cinema is provocatively suggestive of the tradition of courtly love. Working from Lacan and theorist Slavoj Žižek’s analyses of courtly love, this article asserts its continuing dominance as a romantic discourse as well as its articulation and subversion in the films of Breillat. According to Lacanian theory, this courtly tradition, most frequently associ…
Killing Bill
Visible Violence in Kiki Smith's Life Wants to Live
Broken Bodies/Inquiring Minds
This special issue concentrates on a dominant trend in contemporary transnational crime television: quality dramas featuring serial criminals who break the bodies/psyches of young women or children, thereby attracting the inquiries of female detectives who have suffered trauma themselves. This trend has generated resources, industrial partnerships, avid viewers, and, importantly for the authors here, feminist commentary across continents. We refr…
Visible Violence in Kiki Smith's Life Wants to Live
Killing Bill
Desublimating Desire
In its sexually explicit contemplation of romance, desire and violence, Catherine Breillat’s cinema is provocatively suggestive of the tradition of courtly love. Working from Lacan and theorist Slavoj Žižek’s analyses of courtly love, this article asserts its continuing dominance as a romantic discourse as well as its articulation and subversion in the films of Breillat. According to Lacanian theory, this courtly tradition, most frequently associ…
Violence makes victims of us all
Starting with Jacques Ranciere's analysis of 'The Ethical Turn of Aesthetics and Politics', this article analyses the role of ethics, vengeance and victimhood in Clint Eastwood's Mystic River . In his brief commentary on the film, Ranciere uses Mystic River as an illustration of what he sees as a problematic moralistic turn in contemporary American politics and culture that conflates victims and violators and advocates for vigilante justice. Argu…
Desublimating monstrous desire
Known for graphic gore and formal experimentation, films of European new extremism stand out for the way in which they combine sex with violence, stressing the body in extreme modes of being and rendering its materiality emphatic, uncanny and profoundly disturbing. While this emphasis on sex and violence has been widely recognized in scholarly literature on new extremism, its connections to gendered conventions of genre cinema have not. In this a…
The Listening Detective
This essay argues that in extending the audiovisual convention of “thinking music” and focusing it on the traumatized mind of the female detective, crime series such as Top of the Lake (2013–), Marcella (2016–), and From Darkness (2015–) present female knowledge as fundamentally emotional, even irrational. In these series, the female detective is victimized, traumatized, troubled, and her thinking music is distorted, discordant, affectively charg…
Broken Bodies/Inquiring Minds
This special issue concentrates on a dominant trend in contemporary transnational crime television: quality dramas featuring serial criminals who break the bodies/psyches of young women or children, thereby attracting the inquiries of female detectives who have suffered trauma themselves. This trend has generated resources, industrial partnerships, avid viewers, and, importantly for the authors here, feminist commentary across continents. We refr…
Architectures of violence
The hotel is a key setting for Hollywood’s fight sequences, which we argue are always determined, framed, and understood through spatial orientation and architectural setting. Offering both private and public spaces, the upscale hotel offers a compendium of the contemporary action film’s fight scenes in one locale. Foregrounding a compelling fantasy of extravagance and mobility, the luxury hotel fight is foundational to the resilience of action h…
Sociology (7 works) · Aesthetics (6 works) · Art (6 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Literature (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Crime, Deviance, and Social Control (2 works) · Drama (2 works)