Tooth and Claw
"Tales of Survival and "Crocodile Dundee
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2923356 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Meaghan Morris (0000-0001-7288-1001, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1989 |
| Issue | 21 |
| Pages | 105 |
| Publication date | 1989-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social Text (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0164-2472 • E-ISSN: 1527-1951 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/827811 |
| OpenAlex | W2328497538 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 21 |
| References cited | 1 |
In passage of Cinema 1: The Movement-Image, Gilles Deleuze makes casual distinction between path of commercial success in contemporary cinema and movement of cinema's soul. The distinction clarifies historical claim that crisis of actionimage seized postwar American' cinema: the greatest commercial always take that route, but soul of cinema no longer does. For Deleuze, cinema's soul craves thought; and in aftermath of Second World War, thought begins to undo system of actions, perceptions, and affects that had supported classic cinema. One of reasons, and one of results, is that we can now scarcely believe that a global situation can give rise to an action which is capable of modifying it.1 My point of departure is to see in this casual moment another instance of thought veering away from problems posed to criticism by cinema's big, fat, commercial successes (Paul Hogan).2 L'image-mouvement and l'image-temps invent philosophy of time, rather than theory of film or of popular culture, and for Deleuze, no useful problem may be posed by those blockbuster cycles, which, from Star Wars to The Wild Geese to The Road Warrior to Rambo to Crocodile Dundee (not to mention small, fat commercial of Chuck Norris and Charles Bronson films), have had quite bit to say in aftermath of Vietnam War about action, its capacity to modify global situation, and our capacity for belief. More surprising is relative lack of attention paid to such films in recent debates about postmodernity -with its concern for bases of valid
Biology · Claw · Crocodile · Fishery · Zoology · Cinema and Media Studies · Contemporary Literature and Criticism · Political and Economic history of UK and US · Anatomy · Ecology
Hong Kong undercover
The violence of time and memory undercover
Unbearable Significance, or
Searching for Meaghan (Morris)
Lonely representations
Crocs in frocks
Go further west young man
Some origins of a species
Wolf Creek
Re‐imaging Australia
Tchk, tchk, tchk
Cross‐cultural reception studies
Imaging Canada
Citizenship, Education and Postmodernity
Crisis? What Crisis?' Australian Aboriginal Anthropology, 1988
Total recall
The British monarchy on screen
The cultural studies' crossroads blues
What If We Were Savage?” Mad Max Transmedia as Speculative Anthropology
Beyond empire
Apocalypse Australis
| Unique citing works | 21 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.57 |
| Citation span | 1989 - 2022 (34) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |