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Publications by Timothy Holland

Research paper thumbnail of "Reading and Resistance" (for Peggy Kamuf), Discourse 41, nos. 2-3 (2020): 203-215.

Discourse: Journal for Theoretical Studies in Media and Culture , 2020

Research paper thumbnail of "After the après-tout: A review of Peter Szendy, Apocalypse-Cinema: 2012 and Other Ends of the World," Postmodern Culture 27, no. 2 (2017).

Research paper thumbnail of "Cronenberg's Anesthetics (Virtual Flesh)," New Review of Film and Television Studies 15, no. 2 (2017): 141-151.

This essay investigates the marked disappearance of body horror elements in David Cronenberg’s fi... more This essay investigates the marked disappearance of body horror elements in David Cronenberg’s films since A History of Violence (2005). While the absence of body horror’s conventional iconography is undeniable in Cronenberg’s recent cinema, the essay contests that this disappearance signals a departure from his longstanding investment in the politics and spectacular possibilities of flesh. By developing Jacques Derrida’s discussion of contemporary capital punishment’s ‘anesthesial logic’ in The Death Penalty Vol. 1, I contend that Cronenberg’s apparently fleshless cinema functions anesthetically whereby his avoidance of the shocking iconography that characterizes his archive does not signal its complete erasure. Rather than eradication, anesthetics redirect the anticipated avenues of synesthetic transmission and perception; in Cronenberg’s cinema, they generate a virtual encounter with the 'fleshiness' distinguishing the Cronenbergian signature. The essay begins its discussion of ‘Cronenberg’s anesthetics’ through an analysis of the short video, The Nest (2014), and then proceeds to identify how this mode of concealment functions throughout his films since 2005.

Research paper thumbnail of "'Crazy Clown Time' and David Lynch's Parties," Screen 57, no. 4 (Winter): 446–467.

Screen, 57.4 (Winter 2016)

Research paper thumbnail of "Ses Fantômes (The Traces of Derrida's Cinema)," Discourse 37, nos. 1-2 (2015): 40-62.

Discourse 37.1-2 (Winter/Spring 2015) Special issue on Derrida and cinema, edited by Timothy Holl... more Discourse 37.1-2 (Winter/Spring 2015)
Special issue on Derrida and cinema, edited by Timothy Holland and James Leo Cahill

This article addresses the general lack of reference to Jacques Derrida's work in contemporary film and media studies as a reaction to his ostensible silence on cinema. In addition to accounting for this absence through the politics of 1970s film theory, the essay locates and develops Derrida's comments on cinema in the original publications of "Force and Signification" (1963) and "Writing Before the Letter" (1965).

Research paper thumbnail of Co-authored with James Leo Cahill, "Double Exposures: Derrida and Cinema, an Introductory Séance," Discourse 37, nos. 1-2 (2015): 3-21.

Co-authored introduction to Discourse 37.1-2 (2015), special issue on "Derrida and Cinema."

Research paper thumbnail of “Desert Theatrics,” in John Gerrard Exercise (Djibouti) 2012, 17–41.

Catalog essay on John Gerrard's "Exercise (Djibouti) 2012" for Screen Space, Melbourne.

Research paper thumbnail of “On Richard Ruston’s The Reality of Film: Theories of Filmic Reality,” Film-Philosophy 16, no. 1: 299–302.

Research paper thumbnail of “Photographic Aberrations,” Discourse 32, no. 3 (Fall): 355–358.

Conference Presentations by Timothy Holland

Research paper thumbnail of Spectral Belief

Location: Montreal, Canada Date: March 28 Organization: 2015 SCMS Conference Panel: "The Trace... more Location: Montreal, Canada
Date: March 28
Organization: 2015 SCMS Conference
Panel: "The Traces of Jacques Derrida's Cinema"

Research paper thumbnail of "Crazy Clown Time" and The Parties of David Lynch

Research paper thumbnail of New Media Futures: On Egypt’s “Facebook Revolution”

Research paper thumbnail of To Wander Through Cinema: Between Deleuze and Derrida

Research paper thumbnail of Cinema, Aporia, Mirror

Books by Timothy Holland

Research paper thumbnail of John Gerrard, 'Exercise (Djibouti)', 2012, Curated by Baden Pailthorpe

Exhibition catalogue for John Gerrard, 'Exercise (Djibouti)', 2012, Curated by Baden Pailthorpe, ... more Exhibition catalogue for John Gerrard, 'Exercise (Djibouti)', 2012, Curated by Baden Pailthorpe, Screen Space, Melbourne.

Papers by Timothy Holland

Research paper thumbnail of <em>Ses Fantômes</em>: The Traces of Derrida's Cinema

Journal Issues by Timothy Holland

Research paper thumbnail of Derrida and Cinema: Special issue of Discourse 37.1-2 (2015)

Table of Contents Double Exposures: Derrida and Cinema, an Introductory Séance James Leo Cahill ... more Table of Contents

Double Exposures: Derrida and Cinema, an Introductory Séance
James Leo Cahill and Timothy Holland

Cinema and Its Ghosts: An Interview with Jacques Derrida
Antoine de Baecque and Thierry Jousse

Ses Fantômes: The Traces of Derrida’s Cinema
Timothy Holland

Derrida and the Cinematograph: Or the Culture That We Don’t Have
Joana Masó

Screen Replays
David Wills

Plus Surplus Love: Jacques Derrida’s Echopoiesis and Narcissism Adrift
Akira Mizuta Lippit

Blind Cinema
Nicholas Royle

Foyer
Nicholas Royle

Double Features: An Interview with Samuel Weber
Peggy Kamuf

Research paper thumbnail of "Reading and Resistance" (for Peggy Kamuf), Discourse 41, nos. 2-3 (2020): 203-215.

Discourse: Journal for Theoretical Studies in Media and Culture , 2020

Research paper thumbnail of "After the après-tout: A review of Peter Szendy, Apocalypse-Cinema: 2012 and Other Ends of the World," Postmodern Culture 27, no. 2 (2017).

Research paper thumbnail of "Cronenberg's Anesthetics (Virtual Flesh)," New Review of Film and Television Studies 15, no. 2 (2017): 141-151.

This essay investigates the marked disappearance of body horror elements in David Cronenberg’s fi... more This essay investigates the marked disappearance of body horror elements in David Cronenberg’s films since A History of Violence (2005). While the absence of body horror’s conventional iconography is undeniable in Cronenberg’s recent cinema, the essay contests that this disappearance signals a departure from his longstanding investment in the politics and spectacular possibilities of flesh. By developing Jacques Derrida’s discussion of contemporary capital punishment’s ‘anesthesial logic’ in The Death Penalty Vol. 1, I contend that Cronenberg’s apparently fleshless cinema functions anesthetically whereby his avoidance of the shocking iconography that characterizes his archive does not signal its complete erasure. Rather than eradication, anesthetics redirect the anticipated avenues of synesthetic transmission and perception; in Cronenberg’s cinema, they generate a virtual encounter with the 'fleshiness' distinguishing the Cronenbergian signature. The essay begins its discussion of ‘Cronenberg’s anesthetics’ through an analysis of the short video, The Nest (2014), and then proceeds to identify how this mode of concealment functions throughout his films since 2005.

Research paper thumbnail of "'Crazy Clown Time' and David Lynch's Parties," Screen 57, no. 4 (Winter): 446–467.

Screen, 57.4 (Winter 2016)

Research paper thumbnail of "Ses Fantômes (The Traces of Derrida's Cinema)," Discourse 37, nos. 1-2 (2015): 40-62.

Discourse 37.1-2 (Winter/Spring 2015) Special issue on Derrida and cinema, edited by Timothy Holl... more Discourse 37.1-2 (Winter/Spring 2015)
Special issue on Derrida and cinema, edited by Timothy Holland and James Leo Cahill

This article addresses the general lack of reference to Jacques Derrida's work in contemporary film and media studies as a reaction to his ostensible silence on cinema. In addition to accounting for this absence through the politics of 1970s film theory, the essay locates and develops Derrida's comments on cinema in the original publications of "Force and Signification" (1963) and "Writing Before the Letter" (1965).

Research paper thumbnail of Co-authored with James Leo Cahill, "Double Exposures: Derrida and Cinema, an Introductory Séance," Discourse 37, nos. 1-2 (2015): 3-21.

Co-authored introduction to Discourse 37.1-2 (2015), special issue on "Derrida and Cinema."

Research paper thumbnail of “Desert Theatrics,” in John Gerrard Exercise (Djibouti) 2012, 17–41.

Catalog essay on John Gerrard's "Exercise (Djibouti) 2012" for Screen Space, Melbourne.

Research paper thumbnail of “On Richard Ruston’s The Reality of Film: Theories of Filmic Reality,” Film-Philosophy 16, no. 1: 299–302.

Research paper thumbnail of “Photographic Aberrations,” Discourse 32, no. 3 (Fall): 355–358.

Research paper thumbnail of Spectral Belief

Location: Montreal, Canada Date: March 28 Organization: 2015 SCMS Conference Panel: "The Trace... more Location: Montreal, Canada
Date: March 28
Organization: 2015 SCMS Conference
Panel: "The Traces of Jacques Derrida's Cinema"

Research paper thumbnail of "Crazy Clown Time" and The Parties of David Lynch

Research paper thumbnail of New Media Futures: On Egypt’s “Facebook Revolution”

Research paper thumbnail of To Wander Through Cinema: Between Deleuze and Derrida

Research paper thumbnail of Cinema, Aporia, Mirror

Research paper thumbnail of John Gerrard, 'Exercise (Djibouti)', 2012, Curated by Baden Pailthorpe

Exhibition catalogue for John Gerrard, 'Exercise (Djibouti)', 2012, Curated by Baden Pailthorpe, ... more Exhibition catalogue for John Gerrard, 'Exercise (Djibouti)', 2012, Curated by Baden Pailthorpe, Screen Space, Melbourne.

Research paper thumbnail of Derrida and Cinema: Special issue of Discourse 37.1-2 (2015)

Table of Contents Double Exposures: Derrida and Cinema, an Introductory Séance James Leo Cahill ... more Table of Contents

Double Exposures: Derrida and Cinema, an Introductory Séance
James Leo Cahill and Timothy Holland

Cinema and Its Ghosts: An Interview with Jacques Derrida
Antoine de Baecque and Thierry Jousse

Ses Fantômes: The Traces of Derrida’s Cinema
Timothy Holland

Derrida and the Cinematograph: Or the Culture That We Don’t Have
Joana Masó

Screen Replays
David Wills

Plus Surplus Love: Jacques Derrida’s Echopoiesis and Narcissism Adrift
Akira Mizuta Lippit

Blind Cinema
Nicholas Royle

Foyer
Nicholas Royle

Double Features: An Interview with Samuel Weber
Peggy Kamuf