Blow-Up: A Reconsideration of Antonioni's Infidelity to Cortázar

PMLA ◽  
1979 ◽  
Vol 94 (5) ◽  
pp. 887-893 ◽  
Author(s):  
Terry J. Peavler

Antonioni’s Blow-Up is one of the most significant and controversial films of the 1960s. Its success brought increased international recognition not only to its director but to Julio Cortázar, the author of the story that inspired the film. Because of the extreme complexity and ambiguity of both Blow-Up and its source, “Las babas del diablo,” critics have been unable to agree in their interpretations of either work, and they agree even less on the extent of Cortázar’s influence on Antonioni. A close analysis of the two works, with careful focus on the relationship between the creators and their protagonists and on the tension between the narratives and their self-conscious forms, reveals that many of the difficulties in interpretation are due to a priori assumptions of readers and viewers alike and that the similarities between the film and the story are far greater than has been supposed.

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (15) ◽  
pp. 320-355
Author(s):  
Inés Vázquez

I discuss in this text the well-known “controversy” between Liliana Heker and Julio Cortázar from a little traveled perspective, linked to the analysis of social discourses, with attention to the traces left in them by the genocide of the forced disappearance of people carried out by the civic dictatorship -Army military (1976-1983). I point out as a working hypothesis the impossibility of the controversy presented by Heker, based on the tear, under the conditions of the dictatorial context, of the prevailing “reading contract” in the cultural interaction of the Latin American and Argentine left during the 1960s-70s. I analyze the “emotion / exaggeration” categories, and some of their associated terms, as a critical resource used by Heker against certain statements by Cortázar. I thus seek to approximate a critical reflection on what I call “genocide denied” as a condition accepted in Heker's speech to carry out his “controversy”.


Author(s):  
Ludovico Longhi ◽  
Valerio Carando

<p>Michelangelo Antonioni (Blow-Up, 1966) traduce las formas literarias de Julio Cortázar (Las babas del<br />diablo, 1959), extremadamente visionarias, en una interrogación sobre las posibilidades epistemológicas<br />del lenguaje cinematográfico.</p><p>Michelangelo Antonioni (Blow-Up, 1966) translated Julio Cortázar’s literary and visionary forms (Las<br />babas del Diablo, 1959) in a quest on the epistemological possibilities of movie language.<br /><br /></p>


Author(s):  
Harris Feinsod

This chapter shows how revolutionary enthusiasms, experimental magazines, and translation fueled inter-American relations in the 1960s on the countercultural left. Previous critics note the Boom, but most US accounts of the period’s poetry center on the intra-national polarities (“margin versus mainstream” or “raw versus cooked”) inflamed by Donald Allen’s The New American Poetry (1960). The chapter instead describes a larger formation called “the new inter-American poetry,” recovering dialogues best emblematized by the hemispheric little magazine El Corno Emplumado, and the reciprocations engendered between the works of rebellious Beats and revolutionary Cuban barbudos, Paul Blackburn and Julio Cortázar, Clayton Eshleman and Javier Heraud, Pablo Neruda among his English translators, and others. These exchanges were not without their blind spots, and the chapter concludes by comparing the communities imagined by Frank O’Hara’s Lunch Poems (1964) to poems by contemporaneous visitors to Manhattan such as Mario Benedetti (Uruguay) and Alcides Iznaga (Cuba).


2014 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-30
Author(s):  
Michael Handler ◽  
Robert Burrell

Reconciling registration and use as mechanisms by which rights can be acquired in a trade mark is inherently difficult. The federal Australian registered trade mark system is built around a hybrid of a registration-based and a use-based model of protection. While it is perfectly possible to defend such a dual model, the two means of acquiring trade mark rights rest on very different logics. In the event of a conflict between a registered mark and a mark that has been used for some time the question of which should take precedence is not necessarily capable of being determined a priori. The relationship between registration and use is mediated by a number of provisions of the Trade Marks Act 1995 (Cth). In this article we focus on one such provision, s 58A, a relatively recent addition to the legal landscape. Through a close analysis of s 58A, focusing on court decisions and decisions of the Trade Marks Office that have applied this provision, we demonstrate that s 58A has the potential to operate in an entirely unsatisfactory manner. We then use problems with s 58A as a vehicle to explore the relationship between use-based and registration-based rights generally, suggesting a new conceptual framework that might serve to guide future discussion of how the relationship between registration and use ought to be mediated.


Author(s):  
Guillermo Restrepo

THE AIM OF THIS chapter is to ponder and discuss the relationship between chemistry and mathematics, taking into account some early research we have performed on the subject (Restrepo and Schummer 2014; Restrepo and Villaveces 2012, 2013; Restrepo 2013). In those works we have discussed some criticism and some support throughout history regarding the relationship. We analyzed the opinions of scholars ranging from Venel and Denis Diderot (eighteenth century) to Pierre Laszlo (twentieth century), all of whom are critical of mathematical chemistry. We also analyzed opinions by Brown and Paul Dirac (nineteenth and twentieth centuries, respectively), who sought a fruitful relationship between mathematics and chemistry. We discussed Kant and his double opinion regarding such a relationship as well. (In summary, Kant initially did not consider chemistry to be a science because of its apparent lack of mathematization, an idea Kant supported in the apparent a priori background of mathematics and in the a posteriori one of chemistry. Kant’s revised opinion about the relationship between mathematics and chemistry is totally different, Kant now thinks chemistry contains elements of mathematics.) We have also analyzed Comte’s opinions on the necessity of mathematics for chemistry and for the advancement of the latter (Restrepo 2013). Our work on the philosophy and history of the relationship between mathematics and chemistry is driven by the attention research on the field has gained between the 1960s and the present. A wealth of knowledge in the border between the two sciences has been generated but little attention has been paid to the philosophy and history of the subject (Restrepo and Schummer 2012). Thus in recent years scholars (Balaban 2005, 2013; Basak 2013; Deltete 2012; Gavroglu and Simões 2012; Restrepo and Villaveces 2012, 2013; Restrepo 2013; Schummer 2012; Hosoya 2013; Klein 2013), including the author of the present chapter, have decided to study such a relationship from both a historical and a philosophical viewpoint. One example of the increased interest are the special issues of Hyle, which were dedicated to mathematical chemistry.


Author(s):  
Izara Batres Cuevas

Desde su llegada a París, Julio Cortázar comienza un proceso de interpenetración creativa con la ciudad. Este proceso literario, que hace que el espíritu poético de París quede reflejado en las obras de Cortázar, al mismo tiempo que él escribe París desde una mirada poética, es también un proceso personal, ya que las fases en que se divide se corresponden con los estadios vitales de Cortázar.Todo ello queda recogido en la síntesis heterogénea de Último round, pero, para comprender la conformación de este centro del mandala, antes debemos distinguir las fases en las que se divide el proceso (las hemos sintetizado en tres etapas) que vienen determinadas por la relación con París y que generarán cinco giros principales en el plano literario y vital de Cortázar, los cuales, como si fueran trayectos iniciáticos, llevan al escritor de la teoría poética a la práctica poética, de la indefinición de su identidad y su ideal humano a la definición de ambos, de la idea de posesión a la idea de amor, de la pasividad a la acción, y del terreno estético al ontológico. From his arrival in Paris, Julio Cortázar begins a process of creative inter-penetration with the city. In this literary process, what makes the poetic spirit of Paris is reflected in the works of Cortázar, at the same time that he writes from Paris from a poetic viewpoint, it is also a personal process, since the phases that divide them correspond with the life studies of Cortázar.All of this has been gathered in the varied synthesis of Último round, but, in order to understand how this conforms with the center of the mandala, first we should clearly distinguish the phases into which we can divide the process (we have synthesized them into three stages) that are determined by the relationship with Paris and that generate five principal shifts in the literature and life of Cortázar. These shifts are like initiation trajectories which take the writer from the theory of poetry to the practice of poetry, from the indefinition of his identity and his ideal human to the definition of both, from the idea of possession to the idea of love, from passivity to action, and from aesthetic ground to ontological ground. 


2011 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 45-63
Author(s):  
Christiane Lahaie

Le texte littéraire fantastique déploie toute une batterie de stratégies narratives propres à en assurer l’intelligibilité. Au-delà d’un fantastique canonique, reconnu d’emblée comme tel, il existe un fantastique plus discursif, où l’acte d’énonciation et ultimement la narration tout entière se voit contaminés par une certaine ambiguïté. Or, ce type de fantastique scriptural issu d’un focalisateur plus ou moins « digne de confiance » existe-t-il toujours une fois adapté à un processus d’énonciation apparemment plus « objectif » comme celui du récit filmique ? L’analyse de deux textes littéraires fantastiques (Les Fils de la vierge de Julio Cortázar et The Haunting of Hill House de Shirley Jackson) et de leur adaptation pour le cinéma (Blow-Up, 1966, de Michelangelo Antonioni et The Haunting, 1963, de Robert Wise) nous fournira quelques éléments de réponses.


Author(s):  
Mariëlle Stel ◽  
Rick B. van Baaren ◽  
Jim Blascovich ◽  
Eric van Dijk ◽  
Cade McCall ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
A Priori ◽  

Mimicry and prosocial feelings are generally thought to be positively related. However, the conditions under which mimicry and liking are related largely remain unspecified. We advance this specification by examining the relationship between mimicry and liking more thoroughly. In two experiments, we manipulated an individual’s a priori liking for another and investigated whether it influenced mimicry of that person. Our experiments demonstrate that in the presence of a reason to like a target, automatic mimicry is increased. However, mimicry did not decrease when disliking a target. These studies provide further evidence of a link between mimicry and liking and extend previous research by showing that a certain level of mimicry even occurs when mimicry behavior is inconsistent with one’s goals or motivations.


2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 341-361
Author(s):  
Gonzalo Grau-Pérez ◽  
J. Guillermo Milán

In Uruguay, Lacanian ideas arrived in the 1960s, into a context of Kleinian hegemony. Adopting a discursive approach, this study researched the initial reception of these ideas and its effects on clinical practices. We gathered a corpus of discursive data from clinical cases and theoretical-doctrinal articles (from the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s). In order to examine the effects of Lacanian ideas, we analysed the difference in the way of interpreting the clinical material before and after Lacan's reception. The results of this research illuminate some epistemological problems of psychoanalysis, especially the relationship between theory and clinical practice.


2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 189-216
Author(s):  
Jamil Hilal

The mid-1960s saw the beginnings of the construction of a Palestinian political field after it collapsed in 1948, when, with the British government’s support of the Zionist movement, which succeeded in establishing the state of Israel, the Palestinian national movement was crushed. This article focuses mainly on the Palestinian political field as it developed in the 1960s and 1970s, the beginnings of its fragmentation in the 1990s, and its almost complete collapse in the first decade of this century. It was developed on a structure characterized by the dominance of a center where the political leadership functioned. The center, however, was established outside historic Palestine. This paper examines the components and dynamics of the relationship between the center and the peripheries, and the causes of the decline of this center and its eventual disappearance, leaving the constituents of the Palestinian people under local political leadership following the collapse of the national representation institutions, that is, the political, organizational, military, cultural institutions and sectorial organizations (women, workers, students, etc.) that made up the PLO and its frameworks. The paper suggests that the decline of the political field as a national field does not mean the disintegration of the cultural field. There are, in fact, indications that the cultural field has a new vitality that deserves much more attention than it is currently assigned.


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