Nicholas De Villiers
Biographic Data
| ID | 658368 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nicholas De Villiers |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nicholas |
| FAMILY NAME | De Villiers |
| SIGNATURE | DE VILLIERS N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of North Florida |
| ORCID | 0009-0001-8776-4622 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Michael Liu’s Magic and Trans to a New Life
Rebooting Trafficking
While popular psychology and appeals to emotion have unfortunately dominated discussions of ‘sex trafficking’, this article suggests that feminist psychoanalytic film theory and theories of affect are still useful for making sense of the appeal of sensational exposés like Lifetime Television’s Human Trafficking (2005). The dynamic of identification with (and impersonation of) a human trafficking ‘victim’ by the rescuing Immigration and Customs En…
Readymade Mao
Zhang Bingjian's documentary Readymade (2008) focuses on the lives of two Mao Zedong impersonators in the People's Republic of China: Mr. Peng Tian, a forty-six-year-old farmer from Hunan Province enrolled in the performance art program of Beijing Film Academy with the financial support of his wife and family; and Chen Yan, a fifty-one-year-old “housewife” from Sichuan Province who is the only female Mao impersonator in China. Zhang's coverage of…
Writing Toward a Book on Proust
Opacity and the Closet
How Much Does It Cost for Cinema to Tell the Truth of Sex? Cinéma Vérité and Sexography
As Foucault has shown, the Christian pastoral and modern psychiatry share a concern for sex as the truth of the subject which must be passed through `the endless mill of speech'. But what happens when the Confessional and the Couch come into contact with the Cinema? How does realist, documentary and cinéma vérité film-making modify confessional discourse? In this article, I compare Pier Paolo Pasolini's Love Meetings (Comizi d'amore) (1964) with …
A Great "Pedagogy" of Nuance
A Great Pedagogy of Nuance: Roland Barthes’s The Neutral Nicholas de Villiers (bio) Roland Barthes, The Neutral: Lecture Course at the College de France (1977–1978) (European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism). Trans. Rosalind E. Krauss and Denis Hollier. New York: Columbia University Press, 2005. 304 pages. $29.50 (Hardcover). ISBN 0231134045. [Translation of Le Neutre: Cours au College de France (1977–1978). Text e…
Unseen Warhol/Seeing Barthes
Another opposition destroyed is that of inner/outer. Consider the Western theater of the last few centuries. Its function is essentially to reveal what is reputed to be secret (. . .) while concealing the very artifice of the process of revelation (. . .) With Bunraku, the sources of theater are exposed in their void. What is expelled from the stage is hysteria, that is theater itself, and what is put in its place is the action necessary for the …
Rebooting Trafficking
While popular psychology and appeals to emotion have unfortunately dominated discussions of ‘sex trafficking’, this article suggests that feminist psychoanalytic film theory and theories of affect are still useful for making sense of the appeal of sensational exposés like Lifetime Television’s Human Trafficking (2005). The dynamic of identification with (and impersonation of) a human trafficking ‘victim’ by the rescuing Immigration and Customs En…
A Great "Pedagogy" of Nuance
A Great Pedagogy of Nuance: Roland Barthes’s The Neutral Nicholas de Villiers (bio) Roland Barthes, The Neutral: Lecture Course at the College de France (1977–1978) (European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism). Trans. Rosalind E. Krauss and Denis Hollier. New York: Columbia University Press, 2005. 304 pages. $29.50 (Hardcover). ISBN 0231134045. [Translation of Le Neutre: Cours au College de France (1977–1978). Text e…
Unseen Warhol/Seeing Barthes
Another opposition destroyed is that of inner/outer. Consider the Western theater of the last few centuries. Its function is essentially to reveal what is reputed to be secret (. . .) while concealing the very artifice of the process of revelation (. . .) With Bunraku, the sources of theater are exposed in their void. What is expelled from the stage is hysteria, that is theater itself, and what is put in its place is the action necessary for the …
How Much Does It Cost for Cinema to Tell the Truth of Sex? Cinéma Vérité and Sexography
As Foucault has shown, the Christian pastoral and modern psychiatry share a concern for sex as the truth of the subject which must be passed through `the endless mill of speech'. But what happens when the Confessional and the Couch come into contact with the Cinema? How does realist, documentary and cinéma vérité film-making modify confessional discourse? In this article, I compare Pier Paolo Pasolini's Love Meetings (Comizi d'amore) (1964) with …
Opacity and the Closet
Writing Toward a Book on Proust
Rebooting Trafficking
While popular psychology and appeals to emotion have unfortunately dominated discussions of ‘sex trafficking’, this article suggests that feminist psychoanalytic film theory and theories of affect are still useful for making sense of the appeal of sensational exposés like Lifetime Television’s Human Trafficking (2005). The dynamic of identification with (and impersonation of) a human trafficking ‘victim’ by the rescuing Immigration and Customs En…
Readymade Mao
Zhang Bingjian's documentary Readymade (2008) focuses on the lives of two Mao Zedong impersonators in the People's Republic of China: Mr. Peng Tian, a forty-six-year-old farmer from Hunan Province enrolled in the performance art program of Beijing Film Academy with the financial support of his wife and family; and Chen Yan, a fifty-one-year-old “housewife” from Sichuan Province who is the only female Mao impersonator in China. Zhang's coverage of…
Michael Liu’s Magic and Trans to a New Life
Art (6 works) · Literature (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Psychoanalysis (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Art history (2 works) · Cinema and Media Studies (2 works)