The Observer Inside the Circle of Death
Abstract
Spalińska-Mazur tries to identify the meanings of Don’t Look Now that are implied in Daphne du Maurier’s short story on which Roegs film is based. In Spalińska-Mazur’s view Roeg enters into a discussion on the problem of seeing (looking/watching) and asks about the identity of the hero who is in the ring of death. The ring is delineated by a number of elements that appear in view of the main hero. What manifests in the ring is what materializes in the picture. Spalińska-Mazur uses Deleuze’s concept of crystal-image and the categories of actual and virtual image, which she thinks integrate in the film the past and the present. The reference to Bergson’s paramnesia (illusion of déjà vu or already having been there) serves to accentuate the contemporaneous existence of past and present images.
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Gilles Deleuze, Daphne du Maurier, Nicolas Roeg, Henri BergsonReferences
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Joanna Spalińska-Mazurkwartalnik.filmowy@ispan.pl
University of Opole Poland
Adiunkt w Katedrze Teatru, Filmu i Nowych Mediów przy Instytucie Filologii Polskiej Uniwersytetu Opolskiego. Zajmuje się teorią filmowej animacji, problematyką czasu i obrazu filmowego. Przygotowuje pracę habilitacyjną poświęconą filmowej sztuce animacji.
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