Abstract

SHILINA-CONTE, Tanya. The filmmaking machine and the black/white screen as a tool of deterritorialization. LTP [online]. 2018, vol.36, n.72, pp.15-28. ISSN 2317-0972.  https://doi.org/10.5965/0102-387Xv36n72201800028.

This paper explores the roles and functions of the black/white screen in cinema. Drawing extensively, but not exclusively, on Gilles Deleuze’s philosophy in general and his theory of cinema in particular, we conduct a transversal analysis of conceptual frameworks. Based on contemporary approaches to minor cinema, and through a comparison with Deleuze and Félix Guattari’s concept of “a minor literature,” I examine the black/ white screen as a tool of deterritorialization of the major cinematographic language and an introjection of stuttering and mutism in the “filmmaking machine.” I argue that black/ white screens are employed in cinema as a method of deterritorializing or “making strange” the dominant signifying regime of Hollywood codes and practices. These black and white edits counteract official History in the singular and grand master narrative as totalities, introducing instead a multiplicity of other possible narratives (stories).

Keywords : Filmmaking Machine; Black/White Screens; Film Reading.

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