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A cinema of desire: cinesexuality and Guattari's a-signifying cinema

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posted on 2023-08-30, 13:25 authored by Patricia MacCormack
This article will first describe the benefits and risks in challenging projects of signification as they relate to feminism. I will then point out the ways in which the desiring event of cinema – what I have termed ‘cinesexuality’ – can reorient and rupture structures of signification through a focus on expression. The relation of cinesexuality to feminism will then be drawn, using Guattari’s notion of asemiotic bodies: the ‘homosexual’ and ‘woman’. This will be followed by some brief sketches toward thinking cinesexuality as a form of ‘becoming-woman’. The cinesexual emphasises cinematic pleasure as asignified, pleasure beyond signification that then challenges how genders, and indeed individuals as their own collective of disparate modalities, desire cinema.

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Refereed

  • Yes

Volume

16

Issue number

3

Page range

340-355

Publication title

Women: A Cultural Review

ISSN

1470-1367

Publisher

Taylor & Francis

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  • Accepted version

Language

  • eng

Legacy posted date

2010-09-14

Legacy creation date

2018-11-06

Legacy Faculty/School/Department

ARCHIVED Faculty of Arts, Law & Social Sciences (until September 2018)

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