Books by Lesley Marx
Object relations contains a collection of images and essays in which the contributors trace the p... more Object relations contains a collection of images and essays in which the contributors trace the power of objects that connects them to ideas, to people and to their pasts. The essays reveal an array of objects that for the authors have either emotional associations or provoked their thinking in a significant way. The book draws together ideas about objects through both text and image, a pairing that has evolved from a personal desire for collecting, arranging and photographing objects and using these images in conjunction with narrative.
Papers by Lesley Marx
The Modern Language Review, 1999
... Crystal Gazing: Authoring, Apocalypse, And History Lois Parkinson Zamora points out how the v... more ... Crystal Gazing: Authoring, Apocalypse, And History Lois Parkinson Zamora points out how the very position of Revelation, at the end of the Bible, asserts "the authority of its summarizing intent," although the endless interpretations to which it has given rise "seem to mock the ...
Short Film Studies, 2012
... It is also the moment of trauma in the film, illustrating Laura Mulvey's insight that &#... more ... It is also the moment of trauma in the film, illustrating Laura Mulvey's insight that '[t]rauma leaves a mark on the unconscious, a kind of index of the psyche that parallels the photograph's trace of an original event' (2006: 65). The ...
Black Camera, 2011
: Kevin Macdonald’s film takes on the challenge of adapting a novel, a man’s life, and a trau... more : Kevin Macdonald’s film takes on the challenge of adapting a novel, a man’s life, and a traumatic period in Ugandan history. It also attempts to marry fact with fiction, authenticity with narrative thrill. This article argues that the film buckles under the weight of its aspirations, not least because, in the parlance of old-fashioned approaches to adaptation, it perpetrates
Black Camera, 2011
: Kevin Macdonald’s film takes on the challenge of adapting a novel, a man’s life, and a trau... more : Kevin Macdonald’s film takes on the challenge of adapting a novel, a man’s life, and a traumatic period in Ugandan history. It also attempts to marry fact with fiction, authenticity with narrative thrill. This article argues that the film buckles under the weight of its aspirations, not least because, in the parlance of old-fashioned approaches to adaptation, it perpetrates
South African Theatre Journal, 2014
South African Theatre Journal, 1991
South African Theatre Journal, 1990
South African Theatre Journal, 1996
... The play with language in Mapantsula makes even more acute the political resonances of langua... more ... The play with language in Mapantsula makes even more acute the political resonances of language that we find in American examples of the ... Tsotsi-taal, Afrikaans, English, Zulu suggest the polyglot diversity of South African society and the wide variety of identities that have to ...
Social Dynamics, 2006
Cinematic treatments of trauma have to confront the challenge that every aesthetic choice is also... more Cinematic treatments of trauma have to confront the challenge that every aesthetic choice is also an ethical one. This challenge poses special problems for questions of truth and the representation of victims and perpetrators. Three documentaries made by Mark Kaplan (1996–2004) explore the history of South African student activist Siphiwo Mtimkulu, tortured and murdered by security policemen in the early 1980s, and the subsequent interaction between Gideon Nieuwoudt, one of the perpetrators, and the Mtimkulu family during the Truth and Reconciliation Commission Hearings. Ian Gabriel's fiction film, Forgiveness (2004), uses key aspects of this history in his treatment of a repentant perpetrator seeking forgiveness from his victim's family. In my analysis, I argue that respect for a realist aesthetic – the notion that the camera can and does reveal the world to us – may be combined with self-reflexivity, narrative layering and generic innovation to produce a complex representation of truth, victim and perpetrator. I suggest, further, that the initial choice of subject will determine to some extent the degree of complexity with which issues of truth, on the one hand, and the nature of the victim and the perpetrator, on the other, will be developed.
Safundi, 2010
... in the casting of Dolly Rathebe as Zama's mothershe who was Panic'... more ... in the casting of Dolly Rathebe as Zama's mothershe who was Panic's feisty landlady inMapantsula. ... and Ziman's films, and has repercussions for the way in which their representation of the ... with the real world of the narrative echoes that of Hood, but where Tsotsi's soft-filtered ...
Safundi, 2006
... It is arguable that, in order to develop a creative dialogue between the seductive globalizin... more ... It is arguable that, in order to develop a creative dialogue between the seductive globalizing forces of this infinitely alluring American culture and the instincts behind slogans such as local is lekker, proudly South African and the quota system imposed on broadcast ...
English Academy Review, 2008
... Ford Coppola. Prod. Zoetrope Studios. 1979. Festen. Directed by Thomas Vinterberg. Prod. Danm... more ... Ford Coppola. Prod. Zoetrope Studios. 1979. Festen. Directed by Thomas Vinterberg. Prod. Danmarks Radio et al. 1998. Forgiveness. Directed by Ian Gabriel. Prod. Dv8. 2004 Paris, Texas. Directed by Wim Wenders. Prod. Argos. Films. 1984. Promised Land. Directed by Jason ...
African Studies, 1998
... Ubu and the Truth Commission Lesley Marx ... Antje Krog's account of the invasions a... more ... Ubu and the Truth Commission Lesley Marx ... Antje Krog's account of the invasions and symbolic codings of technology in the dissemination of the Truth Commission hearings is illuminating. Comparing the equipment of foreign journalists to that of the local ones, she writes: ...
Journal of Literary Studies, 1999
... Miki Flockemann compares three novels of development, set in South Africa, Canada and the Car... more ... Miki Flockemann compares three novels of development, set in South Africa, Canada and the Caribbean, and offers a fresh perspective ... Derek Maus compares Thomas Pynchon's V.and JM Coetzee's Dusklands focusing on the paternalistic model of colonisation in both novels. ...
Journal Articles by Lesley Marx
In this article we consider recent re-evaluations of the concept of diaspora and extend the notio... more In this article we consider recent re-evaluations of the concept of diaspora and extend the notion of diasporic space using cinematic representations of two diasporic experiences, Italian and Jewish. The first film selected is the work of Edward Dmytryk, a controversial member of the Hollywood Ten (prominent film-makers who refused to disclose their political affiliations during the McCarthy period). The second film is the work of Joan Micklin Silver, who, starting her career in the 1970s, draws particular attention to female experiences of diaspora. The two cases and their respective filmic treatments show significant divergences. However, they are both concerned with the complex tasks of trying to retain elements of the old ways while finding legitimate cultural and social expression in the New World. Our analysis of the films also demonstrates the complex ways in which the New and Old Worlds are spatially and imaginatively linked in the diasporic consciousness.
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