Yours in Revolution: Retrofitting Carlos the Jackal

Culture Unbound: Journal of Current Cultural Research

关键词: Terrorism;    Carlos the Jackal;    naming;    faciality;    Cold War;    embodiment;    Assayas;   

DOI  :  10.3384/cu.2000.1525.135451

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

This paper explores the representation of ‘Carlos the Jackal’, the one-time ‘World’s Most Wanted Man’ and ‘International Face of Terror’ – primarily in cin-ema but also encompassing other forms of popular culture and aspects of Cold War policy-making. At the centre of the analysis is Olivier Assayas’s Carlos (2010), a transnational, five and a half hour film (first screened as a TV mini-series) about the life and times of the infamous militant. Concentrating on the var-ious ways in which Assayas expresses a critical preoccupation with names and faces through complex formal composition, the project examines the play of ab-straction and embodiment that emerges from the narrativisation of terrorist vio-lence. Lastly, it seeks to engage with the hidden implications of Carlos in terms of the intertwined trajectories of formal experimentation and revolutionary politics.

【 授权许可】

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