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Cinema, thought, immanence: Contemplating signs and empty spaces in the films of Ozu

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Lapworth, Andrew·2016·Journal of Urban Cultural Studies
DOI 10.1386/jucs.3.1.13_1
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In his two-volume study of the cinema, Deleuze develops a novel conception of film in terms of its relation to the intensive becomings of thought. Great directors, for Deleuze, are those who invent images that stage disruptions to the habits of ordinary perception, forcing us to think and feel differently. It is precisely in terms of the production of a different style of cinematic thinking that we might frame encounters with the films of director Ozu Yasujiro¯ , who I argue inaugurates a cinema in which contemplation replaces the primacy and certainties of action. Following Deleuze’s ([1968] 2004) rethinking of ‘contemplation’ as immanent event rather than subjective transcendence, I explore how Ozu’s cinema generates transformative modes of thinking the city, uncoupling urban spaces from the requirements of dramatic action such that they become expressive sites of indeterminate signs and affects. By dramatizing these immanent thresholds of affective and spatial becomings, I argue Ozu’s contemplative cinema directs us towards new possible openings of thought to a politics of the virtual.

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Authors
Lapworth, A.
Affiliations
University of Bristol (GB)
Corresponding author
Lapworth, Andrew
ORCID
Lapworth, Andrew
Venue
Journal of Urban Cultural Studies
Publisher
Intellect
Published
2016-03-01
Volume
3
Issue
1
Pages
13-31
ISSN
  • 2050-9790 (ISSN-L)
  • 2050-9804
DOI
10.1386/jucs.3.1.13_1
OpenAlex
W2346671465
Cited by
17
References
20
Citations by year
2026: 9 · 2025: 1 · 2024: 1 · 2023: 1 · 2022: 2 · 2021: 1 · 2019: 2
FWCI
13.12
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Licence
other-oa
Locations
  • Journal of Urban Cultural Studies (publishedVersion)
  • Bristol Research (University of Bristol) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
Funders
Royal Geographical Society
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Visual Arts and Performing Arts › Cinema History and Criticism
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Philosophy › Ethics, Aesthetics, and Art
  • Social Sciences › Geography, Planning and Development › Spatial and Cultural Studies
Keywords
Yasujirō Ozu, Gilles Deleuze, contemplation, immanence, urban space, city in film, affect, signs, empty space, Japanese cinema

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Lapworth, A. (2016). Cinema, thought, immanence: Contemplating signs and empty spaces in the films of Ozu. Journal of Urban Cultural Studies. https://doi.org/10.1386/jucs.3.1.13_1