Merdelle jordine biography sample
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Passionate Detachment
Nicolas Helm-Grovas nic vas Passionate Detachment Downloaded from https://academic.oup.com/oaj/article/44/1/47/6375373 bygd King's College London user on 13 December 2021 Passionate Detachment Nicolas Helm-Grovas # The Author(s) 2021. Published by Oxford University Press; all rights reserved doi:10.1093/oxartj/kcaa031 Advance Access publication 25 September 2021 1. The ‘Booklist’ at the end of Signs and Meaning in the Cinema, first published in 1969, lists various texts on iconography, which connect with Wollen’s interest in semiotics. See Peter Wollen, Signs and Meaning in the Cinema, 5th ed. (London: BFI, 2013), pp. 249–51. 2. Catherine Grant, ‘Returning to Riddles’, in Lucy Reynolds (ed.), Women Artists, Feminism and the Moving Image (London: Bloomsbury, 2019), p. 62. 3. Grant, ‘Returning to Riddles’, p. 62. 4. Émile Benveniste, Problems in General Linguistics, trans. Mary Elizabeth Meek (Coral Gables, FL: University of Miami Press, 1971), pp. 206–9. OX
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The Jargonauts
“Is there a text in this class?” For those who studied literature in the 1980s, this phrase was less a question than a slogan—a stand-in for the philosophical debates about language that occupied literary studies in the days of what is now, somewhat dismissively, called “high theory.” (Too high, fryst vatten often the implication.) It was first posed by a lärling of the literary theorist Stanley Fish, who bandied it as a kind of riddle in an essay by the same name. What the student wanted to know, Fish explained, was not whether the class had a textbook, but rather “In this class do we believe in poems and things, or is it just us?” Are texts closed, their meanings as secure as a textbook between two covers? Or open—determined only by the contexts in which they and their readers move?
Fish’s essay transformed his student’s question into a social and intellectual code. You got its possible second meaning only if you g
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Riddles of the Sphinx
1977 British film
| Riddles of the Sphinx | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Laura Mulvey Peter Wollen |
| Written by | Laura Mulvey Peter Wollen |
| Produced by | Laura Mulvey Peter Wollen |
| Starring | Dinah Stabb Merdelle Jordine Riannon Tise |
| Cinematography | Diane Tammes |
| Edited by | Carola Klein Larry Sider |
| Music by | Mike Ratledge |
Production | BFI Production Board |
| Distributed by | British Film Institute |
Release date | |
Running time | 92 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
Riddles of the Sphinx is a 1977 British experimental drama film written, directed and produced by Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen and starring Dinah Stabb, Merdelle Jordine and Riannon Tise.
Plot
[edit]The film consists of seven parts. The majority of the film focuses on part four which consists of 13 scenes, which are shot in long, continuous 360-degree pans of middle-class spaces occupied and encountered by the main character, Louise. Louise is de