Acinemas

Graham Jones is Lecturer in Creative Writing, Literary Studies and Media and Communications at Monash University, Australia. Ashley Woodward is Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Dundee and is a founding member of the Melbourne School of Continental Philosophy.

• ForewordSusana Viegas and James Williams Editor’s IntroductionGraham Jones and Ashley WoodwardCinema Lyotard: An IntroductionJean-Michel Durafour LYOTARD’S ESSAYS ON FILMAcinemaThe Unconscious as Mise-en-scèneTwo Metamorphoses of the Seductive in Cinema The Idea of a Sovereign Film APPROACHES AND INTERPRETATIONSImaginary Constructs? A Libidinal Economy of the Cinematographic MediumJulie GaillardLyotard, Gorgias and the Art of SeductionKeith CromeAuthorisation: Lyotard’s Sovereign ImagePeter W. MilneAPPLICATIONS AND EXTENTIONSDiscourse, Figure, Suture: Lyotard and Cinematic SpaceJon HackettOn Dialogue as Performative Art CriticismVlad IonescuGive Me a Sign: An Anxious Exploration of Performance on Film, Under Lyotard’s ShadowKiff BamfordHow Desire Works: A Lyotardian LynchGraham Jones and Ashley WoodwardAberrant Movement and Somatography in the Hysterical Films of Roméo BosettiLisa TrahairAPPENDICES1. Lyotard’s Film WorkClaudine Eizykman and Guy Fihman2. Memorial ImmemorialJean-François Lyotard3. Lyotard Filmography4. BibliographyIndex

Acinemas serves its purpose admirably: to prompt further thinking about Lyotard and film, and to offer some stimulating resources for so doing.