The Image of a Mind-Skull: Samuel Beckett’s "...but the clouds..." and Television-Philosophy
(2015) In Film-Philosophy 19. p.325-343- Abstract
- The article offers a new approach for the exploration of media and television studies by extracting the television-philosophy implicit in Samuel Beckett’s television play …but the clouds…. The reading focuses on the immanent logic of the play seen as a televisual and an intermedial whole, instead of constructing it as an intertextual tapestry of references. The article argues against a popular interpretation of Beckett as the artist of failure. The reading of …but the clouds… as illustrating the failure of memory and as a comment on the televisual loss of pro-filmic referentiality is subsequently also contested. On the contrary, it is argued that the play in a self-reflexive positive gesture explores both the ontology of the... (More)
- The article offers a new approach for the exploration of media and television studies by extracting the television-philosophy implicit in Samuel Beckett’s television play …but the clouds…. The reading focuses on the immanent logic of the play seen as a televisual and an intermedial whole, instead of constructing it as an intertextual tapestry of references. The article argues against a popular interpretation of Beckett as the artist of failure. The reading of …but the clouds… as illustrating the failure of memory and as a comment on the televisual loss of pro-filmic referentiality is subsequently also contested. On the contrary, it is argued that the play in a self-reflexive positive gesture explores both the ontology of the television-image and the ontology of memory as a process of conjuration by presenting a successful emergence of the televisual Image-in-itself. (Less)
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- Mendelyté, Aténé LU
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- publishing date
- 2015
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- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- film-philosophy, Deleuze, Beckett, television play, mental space, time-image
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- Film-Philosophy
- volume
- 19
- pages
- 325 - 343
- publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- external identifiers
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- scopus:85137230902
- ISSN
- 1466-4615
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
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- 2f88f28d-ae8f-4533-95ef-a1551ae9c1e0 (old id 8420142)
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- http://www.film-philosophy.com/index.php/f-p/article/view/1016
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publisher = {{Edinburgh University Press}},
series = {{Film-Philosophy}},
title = {{The Image of a Mind-Skull: Samuel Beckett’s "...but the clouds..." and Television-Philosophy}},
url = {{http://www.film-philosophy.com/index.php/f-p/article/view/1016}},
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