Richard Rushton
Biographic Data
| ID | 642884 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard Rushton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard |
| FAMILY NAME | Rushton |
| SIGNATURE | RUSHTON R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lancaster University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2361-1667 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 20 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Film Theory
I have chosen six titles on which to focus here for the years 2013–14: two significant works on Jean-Luc Godard’s later films—Late Godard and the Possibilities of Cinema by Daniel Morgan (UCalP [2013]) and Jean-Luc Godard: Cinema Historian by Michael Witt (IndianaUP [2013]); D.N. Rodowick’s genealogy of contemporary film theory, Elegy for Theory (HarvardUP [2014]); Sarah Cooper’s investigation of the term ‘soul’ and its relation to cinema in The …
Film Theory
Four particularly important books of film theory were published in 2012, two by established scholars in film—Miriam Bratu Hansen and Thomas Elsaesser—along with two timely collections of essays by twentieth-century theorists, Siegfried Kracauer and Georg Lukács, with the latter collection featuring an excellent commentary by Ian Aitken. The chapter is divided into four sections: 1. Cinema and Experience; 2. Siegfried Kracauer’s American Writings;…
Empathic projection in the films of the Dardenne brothers
A number of commentators have engaged with the moral or ethical dimensions of the feature films of Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne; rather less attention has been paid to their style. What has been written of the films' stylistic traits -and my focus here is on La promesse
Screening the Face
Journal Article Screening the Face Get access Paul Coates, Screening the Face. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan 2012, 195 pp. Richard Rushton Richard Rushton [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Screen, Volume 55, Issue 4, Winter 2014, Pages 530–533, https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/hju044 Published: 11 December 2014
Film Theory
This chapter examines work published in the field of film theory in the year 2011 and is divided into five sections: 1. Introduction; 2. New Philosophies of Film; 3. Pretty; 4. World Cinema and the Ethics of Realism; 5. Film and Female Consciousness.
Death in Classical Hollywood Cinema * Hollywood Westerns and American Myth
Death in Classical Hollywood Cinema, written by a young film scholar (this is Boaz Hagins's first book), aims to chart the various methods and meanings of death in a number of classical Hollywood films and genres from 1925 to 1955. It is a work that is to some extent informed by philosophical conceptions of death – the names of Plato, Heidegger, Deleuze, Lyotard and others are sprinkled throughout – though these philosophical stakes tend to be so…
A Deleuzian Imaginary
This article contrasts the notion of a Deleuzian imaginary with that articulated by various film theorists during the 1970s and 1980s. Deleuze offers us, I argue, a way to conceive of the imaginary in the cinema in a positive way; that is, as something which opens up new expressions of the real. By contrast, for film theorists of the 1970s and 1980s, the imaginary was primarily conceived as a negative concept, as something which offered merely es…
Refractions of Reality
Cinema After Deleuze After 9/11 (review)
Reviewed by: Cinema After Deleuze After 9/11 Richard Rushton (bio) David Martin-Jones, Deleuze, Cinema and National Identity: Narrative Time in National Contexts. 2006. Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2008. Deleuze, Cinema and National Identity is an ambitious attempt to bring together the writings of Gilles Deleuze and discourses on national cinemas. In arguing that some of Deleuze's concepts can be relevant to national cinematic discourses, David Mart…
Deleuzian spectatorship
Passions and Actions
When writing about cinema does Deleuze have a conception of cinema spectatorship? In New Philosophy for New Media, Mark Hansen argues that Deleuze does have a conception of cinema spectatorship but that the subjectivity central to that spectatorship is weak and impoverished. This article argues against Hansen's reductive interpretation of Deleuze. In doing so, it relies on the three syntheses of time developed in Difference and Repetition alongsi…
Filmosophy * The Real Gaze
In the opening line of The Real Gaze, Todd McGowan is undoubtedly correct to assert that ‘Film theory today is almost nonexistent’ (p. ix). His book, and Daniel Frampton's maverick manifesto Filmosophy along with it, represent bold attempts to rescue some territory for those film scholars who like to speculate on the far-flung possibilities of cinema – territory that has in recent times been given over to empiricism in one form or another. If the…
Absorption and theatricality in the cinema
Journal Article Absorption and theatricality in the cinema: some thoughts on narrative and spectacle Get access Richard Rushton Richard Rushton Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Screen, Volume 48, Issue 1, Spring 2007, Pages 109–112, https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/hjm006 Published: 01 March 2007
Deleuze on Cinema * The Matrix of Visual Culture
Ronald Bogue, Deleuze on Cinema; Patricia Pisters, The Matrix of Visual Culture: Working with Deleuze in Film Theory Ronald Bogue, Deleuze on Cinema. New York, NY and London: Routledge, 2003, 240 pp. Patricia Pisters, The Matrix of Visual Culture: Working with Deleuze in Film Theory. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2003, 288 pp. Richard Rushton Richard Rushton Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Scree…
Ronald Bogue, Deleuze on Cinema; Patricia Pisters, The Matrix of Visual Culture
Journal Article Ronald Bogue, Deleuze on Cinema; Patricia Pisters, The Matrix of Visual Culture: Working with Deleuze in Film Theory Get access Ronald Bogue, Deleuze on Cinema. New York, NY and London: Routledge, 2003, 240 pp. Patricia Pisters, The Matrix of Visual Culture: Working with Deleuze in Film Theory. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2003, 288 pp. Richard Rushton Richard Rushton Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Ac…
The Perversion of The Silence of the Lambs and the Dilemma of The Searchers
Response to Mark B.N. Hansen’s ‘Affect as Medium, or the “Digital-Facial-Image”’
The psychoanalytic structure of trauma
This essay engages in a close analysis of two films, Alfred Hitchcock’s Spellbound (1945) and Ang Lee’s Hulk (2003), in order to examine their approaches to trauma, especially in relation to the psychoanalytic notion of Nachträglichkeit (“afterwardsness”). A complex notion of afterwardsness is proposed whereby it is predicated on a relationship between two events, but where the importance of afterwardsness is not seen to lie in the nature of the …
Filmic Realization
Capital Women
Capital Women Richard Rushton (bio) Rosemary Hennessy, Profit and Pleasure: Sexual Identities in Late Capitalism (Routledge). Simone Weil Davis, Living up to the Ads: Gender Fictions of the 1920s (Duke University Press). What does it mean to “construct one’s identity”? This may appear, at first, a strange or even misguided question. Surely, if nothing else, writings in the humanities and social sciences over the past decade or more have consisten…
Absorption and theatricality in the cinema
Journal Article Absorption and theatricality in the cinema: some thoughts on narrative and spectacle Get access Richard Rushton Richard Rushton Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Screen, Volume 48, Issue 1, Spring 2007, Pages 109–112, https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/hjm006 Published: 01 March 2007
Deleuzian spectatorship
Filmic Realization
Capital Women
Capital Women Richard Rushton (bio) Rosemary Hennessy, Profit and Pleasure: Sexual Identities in Late Capitalism (Routledge). Simone Weil Davis, Living up to the Ads: Gender Fictions of the 1920s (Duke University Press). What does it mean to “construct one’s identity”? This may appear, at first, a strange or even misguided question. Surely, if nothing else, writings in the humanities and social sciences over the past decade or more have consisten…
Filmic Realization
Response to Mark B.N. Hansen’s ‘Affect as Medium, or the “Digital-Facial-Image”’
The psychoanalytic structure of trauma
This essay engages in a close analysis of two films, Alfred Hitchcock’s Spellbound (1945) and Ang Lee’s Hulk (2003), in order to examine their approaches to trauma, especially in relation to the psychoanalytic notion of Nachträglichkeit (“afterwardsness”). A complex notion of afterwardsness is proposed whereby it is predicated on a relationship between two events, but where the importance of afterwardsness is not seen to lie in the nature of the …
Deleuze on Cinema * The Matrix of Visual Culture
Ronald Bogue, Deleuze on Cinema; Patricia Pisters, The Matrix of Visual Culture: Working with Deleuze in Film Theory Ronald Bogue, Deleuze on Cinema. New York, NY and London: Routledge, 2003, 240 pp. Patricia Pisters, The Matrix of Visual Culture: Working with Deleuze in Film Theory. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2003, 288 pp. Richard Rushton Richard Rushton Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Scree…
Ronald Bogue, Deleuze on Cinema; Patricia Pisters, The Matrix of Visual Culture
Journal Article Ronald Bogue, Deleuze on Cinema; Patricia Pisters, The Matrix of Visual Culture: Working with Deleuze in Film Theory Get access Ronald Bogue, Deleuze on Cinema. New York, NY and London: Routledge, 2003, 240 pp. Patricia Pisters, The Matrix of Visual Culture: Working with Deleuze in Film Theory. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2003, 288 pp. Richard Rushton Richard Rushton Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Ac…
The Perversion of The Silence of the Lambs and the Dilemma of The Searchers
Absorption and theatricality in the cinema
Journal Article Absorption and theatricality in the cinema: some thoughts on narrative and spectacle Get access Richard Rushton Richard Rushton Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Screen, Volume 48, Issue 1, Spring 2007, Pages 109–112, https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/hjm006 Published: 01 March 2007
Passions and Actions
When writing about cinema does Deleuze have a conception of cinema spectatorship? In New Philosophy for New Media, Mark Hansen argues that Deleuze does have a conception of cinema spectatorship but that the subjectivity central to that spectatorship is weak and impoverished. This article argues against Hansen's reductive interpretation of Deleuze. In doing so, it relies on the three syntheses of time developed in Difference and Repetition alongsi…
Filmosophy * The Real Gaze
In the opening line of The Real Gaze, Todd McGowan is undoubtedly correct to assert that ‘Film theory today is almost nonexistent’ (p. ix). His book, and Daniel Frampton's maverick manifesto Filmosophy along with it, represent bold attempts to rescue some territory for those film scholars who like to speculate on the far-flung possibilities of cinema – territory that has in recent times been given over to empiricism in one form or another. If the…
Cinema After Deleuze After 9/11 (review)
Reviewed by: Cinema After Deleuze After 9/11 Richard Rushton (bio) David Martin-Jones, Deleuze, Cinema and National Identity: Narrative Time in National Contexts. 2006. Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2008. Deleuze, Cinema and National Identity is an ambitious attempt to bring together the writings of Gilles Deleuze and discourses on national cinemas. In arguing that some of Deleuze's concepts can be relevant to national cinematic discourses, David Mart…
Deleuzian spectatorship
Refractions of Reality
A Deleuzian Imaginary
This article contrasts the notion of a Deleuzian imaginary with that articulated by various film theorists during the 1970s and 1980s. Deleuze offers us, I argue, a way to conceive of the imaginary in the cinema in a positive way; that is, as something which opens up new expressions of the real. By contrast, for film theorists of the 1970s and 1980s, the imaginary was primarily conceived as a negative concept, as something which offered merely es…
Death in Classical Hollywood Cinema * Hollywood Westerns and American Myth
Death in Classical Hollywood Cinema, written by a young film scholar (this is Boaz Hagins's first book), aims to chart the various methods and meanings of death in a number of classical Hollywood films and genres from 1925 to 1955. It is a work that is to some extent informed by philosophical conceptions of death – the names of Plato, Heidegger, Deleuze, Lyotard and others are sprinkled throughout – though these philosophical stakes tend to be so…
Film Theory
This chapter examines work published in the field of film theory in the year 2011 and is divided into five sections: 1. Introduction; 2. New Philosophies of Film; 3. Pretty; 4. World Cinema and the Ethics of Realism; 5. Film and Female Consciousness.
Film Theory
Four particularly important books of film theory were published in 2012, two by established scholars in film—Miriam Bratu Hansen and Thomas Elsaesser—along with two timely collections of essays by twentieth-century theorists, Siegfried Kracauer and Georg Lukács, with the latter collection featuring an excellent commentary by Ian Aitken. The chapter is divided into four sections: 1. Cinema and Experience; 2. Siegfried Kracauer’s American Writings;…
Empathic projection in the films of the Dardenne brothers
A number of commentators have engaged with the moral or ethical dimensions of the feature films of Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne; rather less attention has been paid to their style. What has been written of the films' stylistic traits -and my focus here is on La promesse
Screening the Face
Journal Article Screening the Face Get access Paul Coates, Screening the Face. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan 2012, 195 pp. Richard Rushton Richard Rushton [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Screen, Volume 55, Issue 4, Winter 2014, Pages 530–533, https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/hju044 Published: 11 December 2014
Film Theory
I have chosen six titles on which to focus here for the years 2013–14: two significant works on Jean-Luc Godard’s later films—Late Godard and the Possibilities of Cinema by Daniel Morgan (UCalP [2013]) and Jean-Luc Godard: Cinema Historian by Michael Witt (IndianaUP [2013]); D.N. Rodowick’s genealogy of contemporary film theory, Elegy for Theory (HarvardUP [2014]); Sarah Cooper’s investigation of the term ‘soul’ and its relation to cinema in The …
Art (16 works) · Cinema and Media Studies (15 works) · Art history (13 works) · Movie theater (12 works) · Philosophy (12 works) · Aesthetics (11 works) · Epistemology (11 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Film theory (7 works)