Heterotopia on Screen- Blue Velvet (1986)

• Authors: Eliza Claudia Filimon
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Based on a framework consisting of postmodern theories of heterotopias, spatial pastiche, schizophrenic temporality and postmodern speed, this paper seeks to identify cinematic features in the works of the American director David Lynch, which exemplify time and space in postmodernism. Michel Foucault's theory of space will trigger the whole problematic of the time-space relation. This is followed by a discussion of Fredric Jameson's concepts of spatial pastiche and schizophrenic temporality and of the involute interaction between the two

Keywords

EN

heterotopia; postmodernism; space; time

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Romanian Journal of English Studies
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 11
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 158-166

Dates

published

2014-03-01

online

2014-05-01

Contributors

author

Eliza Claudia Filimon

• West University of Timișoara

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/rjes-2014-0020