{"id":238,"date":"2016-08-22T13:18:49","date_gmt":"2016-08-22T13:18:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/b-film\/?p=238"},"modified":"2016-08-24T10:34:08","modified_gmt":"2016-08-24T10:34:08","slug":"finished-my-chapter-not-the-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/b-film\/2016\/08\/22\/finished-my-chapter-not-the-book\/","title":{"rendered":"Finished! (My Chapter, Not The Book)"},"content":{"rendered":"

I finished my chapter. Or at least the first draft of it. It\u2019s too long but I don\u2019t know what to cut and it\u2019s gone off to external review in the hope that someone will tell me.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s something of a culmination of theories that I\u2019ve been following and developing since 2004, when I first read the political scientist Georg Sorenson\u2019s\u00a0The Transformation of the State: Beyond the Myth of Retreat <\/em>on a plane coming back from the University at Aarhus in Denmark.<\/p>\n

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S\u00f8renson writes about a new system in the making beyond the nation-state and it is this theoretical framework that I adopted and deployed in looking at Cuban cinema, with Dunja Fehimovi\u0107, Basque cinema, with Mar\u00eda Pilar Rodr\u00edguez and independent American cinema on my own.<\/p>\n

Co-editing The Routledge Companion to World Cinema<\/em> gave me the opportunity to theorise all my ideas and lay them out as a fluid framework for understanding the mutability of World cinema. I\u2019m jumping ahead, of course, to what is currently known as \u2018chapter 22\u2019 but it\u2019s good to at least have a draft of it in the bank.<\/p>\n

Does it make sense? Is it viable? Hell, is it any good?<\/p>\n

No idea.<\/p>\n

This is how it begins.<\/p>\n

Obviously, a rigid, blinkered, absolutist world view is the easiest to keep hold of, whereas the fluid, uncertain, metamorphic picture I’ve always carried about is rather more vulnerable.<\/em>
\n– Salman Rushdie (1993: 23)<\/p>\n

A brilliant beginning, I\u2019m sure you\u2019ll agree.<\/p>\n

As for the rest of it? We\u2019ll see.<\/p>\n

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I finished my chapter. Or at least the first draft of it. It\u2019s too long but I don\u2019t know what to cut and it\u2019s gone off to external review in the hope that someone will tell me. It\u2019s something of a culmination of theories that I\u2019ve been following and developing since 2004, when I first … Continue reading “Finished! (My Chapter, Not The Book)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/b-film\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/b-film\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/b-film\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/b-film\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/b-film\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/b-film\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":288,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/b-film\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238\/revisions\/288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/b-film\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/b-film\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/b-film\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}