Unfolding Borders: For a Semiotics of Essayistic Border Images
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- dc.contributor.author Rascaroli, Laura
- dc.date.accessioned 2024-10-17T08:47:40Z
- dc.date.available 2024-10-17T08:47:40Z
- dc.date.issued 2022
- dc.date.modified 2022-07-20T06:17:30Z
- dc.description.abstract Problematic ideological strategies of in/visibility are played out today around borders by exploiting advanced image-making technologies and hegemonic media discourses that produce “thin” border images lacking in semiotic complexity. This article responds to calls to move beyond the “line in the sand” metaphor by investigating essay films that experiment with a performative relationship with the border. Their “borderwork” is self-reflexive to the point of becoming a form of theory. To elucidate this theorization of the border, I invoke Derrida’s limitrophic method of “thickening” the limit, mediated via Deleuze’s notion of the fold. By comparing three case studies—Armin Linke’s Alpi (2011), Philip Scheffner’s Havarie (2016), and Tadhg O’Sullivan’s The Great Wall (2015)—I interrogate the strategies that essay films employ to operationalize borders. The article is a first attempt at a semiotic classification of film-essayistic border images, and a contribution to the understanding of essay film as limitrophic audiovisual thinking.
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- dc.identifier http://www.raco.cat/index.php/Comparativecinema/article/view/394436
- dc.identifier 2604-9821
- dc.identifier 10.31009/cc.2022.v10.i18.03
- dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/62298
- dc.publisher Universitat Pompeu Fabra
- dc.relation.haspart Comparative Cinema, 2022, Vol. 10, Núm. 18 (2022): , p. 32-52
- dc.relation.haspart Comparative Cinema, 2022, Vol 10, No 18 (2022): The Audiovisual Thinking Process in Contemporary Essay Films, p. 32-52
- dc.relation.haspart Comparative Cinema, 2022, Vol. 10, Núm. 18 (2022): , p. 32-52
- dc.relation.haspart http://www.raco.cat/index.php/Comparativecinema/article/view/394436/493607
- dc.rights.uri Drets d'autor 2022 Comparative Cinema
- dc.rights.uri https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
- dc.rights.uri info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
- dc.source.uri RACO (Revistes Catalanes amb Accés Obert)
- dc.subject.other Border
- dc.subject.other Essay film
- dc.subject.other Gilles Deleuze
- dc.subject.other Fold
- dc.subject.other Film semiotics
- dc.subject.other Alpi
- dc.subject.other Havarie
- dc.subject.other The Great Wall
- dc.title Unfolding Borders: For a Semiotics of Essayistic Border Images
- dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
- dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion