Argument
Martin-Jones relocates Deleuze's image taxonomy across national contexts including North America, Britain, Germany, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, Italy, and Poland, demonstrating the inseparability of form and historical politics. Within a single film, movement-image and time-image deterritorialize and reterritorialize one another. Temporal fracture may dismantle triumphalist history or be recaptured by national myth.
Core question
How is national identity produced through narrative time? How do mixtures of movement-image and time-image in contemporary cinema rewrite histories of war, reunification, crisis, and the global city?
Argument structure
History and memory connect narrative time to national archaeology. The global-city, Gulf War, post-9/11, and Pacific Rim studies follow two changes: films disrupt historical time, while their endings reorganize action and identity. Local histories thereby help reshape the relation between movement-image and time-image.
Related concepts, chapters, and films
Original editions, translations, and access
Deleuze, Cinema and National Identity: Narrative Time in National Contexts
English · Edinburgh University Press · 2006
ISBN 9780748622443Original edition detailsNo translation details listed.