A new article by our post-doctoral researcher Marco Grosoli is now out, published in Cinergie's latest issue, edited by Massimo Fusillo and Mirko Lino. Cinergie is an open-access, peer-reviewed, class-A journal and the full issue is available here.
In his paper, titled "The Political Asleep: Non-Traumatic Spectrality in Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Cemetery of Splendour”, Marco Grosoli analyses Cemetery of Splendour (2015) to argue that spectrality is addressed therein differently from the way it is in the other feature films by Apichatpong Weerasethakul. As a methodological framework, he particularly relies on Fredric Jameson’s idea of “cognitive mapping” and focuses, thereby, mainly on the film’s geopolitical implications as well as on its self-referentiality. In regard to the former, the specificities of Isan region in the Northeast of Thailand prove very relevant (as in other films by the same director). In regard to the latter, he draws as well on Jameson’s theories of film enunciation (somewhat related to Jean-Pierre Oudart’s “suture theory”) as key to the film’s political subtext.
Read the full article here.
📷 Cemetery of Splendour [2015], by Apichatpong Weerasethakul
