Citational Vampires

Transnational Techniques of Circulation in Irma Vep, Blood: The Last Vampire and Thirst

Bibliographic Data

ID20082835
AuthorsK Gelder (0000-0003-0875-9348, corresponding author)
Year2013
Pages81-104
Publication date2013-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeCHAPTER
VenueTransnational and Postcolonial Vampires (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan UK (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1057/9781137272621_5
OpenAlexW2476807293
ISBN9781137272621
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited9

One of the problems to do with viewing and analysing cinema from remote locations is to do with the matter of getting to what Meaghan Morris has called the 'local levels of language community and affective mobilisation' (2005, p. 7). Naturally, there is always a sense that cinema from other places — cinema that is no doubt best understood through its local frameworks of production and consumption, its local traditions and so on — will always exceed the understanding of critics who remain geographically and culturally distanced from these things. This is exactly my own predicament here, as an Anglo-Australian viewer who is trying to read some fascinating vampire films from France, Japan and Korea. On the other hand, these films are also already transnational, designed among other things to interrogate one's assumptions about cultural and geographical distance, and difference. They are both 'local' and something else besides; to this end, they place the 'local' and the remote into proximity with each other, juxtaposing them but also drawing them together. In fact, the films under discussion here stage an encounter between these two otherwise distinct domains: turning the remote viewer's experience of this into, effectively, an encounter with an encounter

Aesthetics · Art · Geography · Literature · Media studies · Movie theater · Sociology · Vampire · Visual arts · Asian Culture and Media Studies · Cinema and Media Studies · Engineering · History · Japanese History and Culture

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