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Dr Felicity Colman

Felicity Colman is a member of the Media Research Centre.

A selection of recent research outputs.
Books

Colman, F., 2011. 'Deleuze And Cinema', Oxford: Berg Publishers..

Edited Books

Colman, F., Frichot, H., Reynolds, J., 2012. 'Global Arts / Local Knowledge', New York: Lexington Books.

Colman, F., 2009. 'Film, Theory and Philosophy: The Key Thinkers', Acumen (Durham, UK) & McGill-Queens University Press (Canada).

Colman, F. Bolt, B. Jones, G., Woodward, A., 2007. 'Sensorium: Aesthetics, Art, Life', UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

Book Chapters

Colman, F., 2012. 'Affective animal: Bataille, Lascaux and the mediatization of the sacred'. In Charlie Blake, Claire Molloy, Steven Shakespeare (eds.) Beyond Human From Animality to Transhumanism, 7, Continuum: New York & London.

Colman, F., 2009. '"Introduction: What is Film-philosophy?"'. In F.Colman (eds.) Film, Theory and Philosophy, 1-15, Acumen Publishing: Durham, UK..

Colman, F., 2009. '"Paul Virilio"'. In F.Colman (eds.) Film, Theory and Philosophy, 201-211, Acumen Publishing: Durham, UK..

Colman, F., 2009. ''Affective Imagery: Screen Militarism''. In E.W.Holland, D.W.Smith, C.S.Stivale (eds.) Gilles Deleuze: Image and Text, 8, 143-159, Continuum: London and New York..

Colman, F., 2009. ''The Western: Affective Sound Communities''. In G.Harper, R.Doughty. J.Eisentraut (eds.) Sound and Music in Film and Visual Media, 10, 194-207, Continuum: New York & London.

Colman, F., 2008. '“Affective Vectors: icons, Guattari, and art”'. In O’Sullivan, S. & Zepke, S. (eds.) Producing the New: Deleuze, Guattari and Contemporary Art, 122-131, London: Continuum.

Colman, F., 2007. '“Affective Intensity: Art as Sensorial Form”'. In Bolt, B., Colman, F. , Jones,G., Woodward, A. (eds.) Sensorium: Aesthetics, Art, Life, 64-83., UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

Colman, F., 2007. '“Affective Terrorism”'. In Hickey-Moody, A. & Malins, P. (eds.) Deleuzian Encounters: Studies in Contemporary Social Issues, 122-131, London: Palgrave.

Colman, F. Bolt, B. Jones, G., Woodward, A., 2007. '“Introduction”'. In Bolt, B., Colman, F. , Jones,G., Woodward, A. (eds.) Sensorium: Aesthetics, Art, Life, xii-xix., UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

Colman, F., 2005. '“Affect”, “Art”, “Henri Bergson”, “Crystal”, “Feminism”, "Rhizome"'. In Parr, A. (eds.) The Deleuze Dictionary, 11-13; 15-16; 26-28; 59-61; 100-102; 231-233., Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.

Colman, F., 2005. '“Cinema: movement-image-recognition-time”'. In Stivale, C.J. (eds.) Gilles Deleuze: Key Concepts, 141-156., Acumen, UK..

Internet Publications

Colman, F., 2008. '“Any-space-whatevers: affective game topologies”', Refractory: Journal of Entertainment Media, http://blogs.arts.unimelb.edu.au/refractory/2008/05/21/affective-game-topologies-any-space-whatevers-felicity-j-colman/.

Colman, F., 2007. '“In search of anxious time: Deleuze, Cinema and National Identity: Narrative Time in National Contexts by David Martin-Jones”', Senses of Cinema, http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/books/07/44/deleuze-cinema-identity.html.

Colman, F., 2006. '“Painting Film with Velvet Sounds: David Lynch’s Lost Highway”', Senses of Cinema, http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/cteq/06/40/lost-highway.html.

Colman, F., 2006. '“Thinking in Images: Film Theory, Feminist Philosophy', Senses of Cinema, http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/books/06/40/thinking-in-images.html.

Colman, F., 2004. '“Hope: An e-modulating motion of deterritorialization”', Drain: Journal of Contemporary Art and Culture, http://www.drainmag.com/index_dete.htm.

Colman, F., 2003. '“The Sight of Your God Disturbs Me: questioning the post-Christian bodies of Buffy, Lain, and George”', The Refractory: a Journal of Entertainment Media, http://blogs.arts.unimelb.edu.au/refractory/2003/06/26/the-sight-of-your-god-disturbs-me-questioning-the-post-christian-bodies-of-buffy-lain-and-george-felicity-colman/.

Journal Articles

Colman, F., 2010. 'Affective Self: Feminist Thinking and Feminist actions', Contemporary French and Francophone Studies: Sites, Volume 14, Issue 5 December 2010, pages 543 - 552.

Colman, F., 2010. 'Notes on the Feminist Manifesto: the strategic use of hope', Journal for Cultural Research, Volume 14, Issue 4 October 2010, pages 375 - 392.

Colman, F., 2008. 'Review of Annette Kuhn and Kirsten Emiko McAllister (eds.), Locating Memory: Photographic Acts', Cultural Studies Review, March.

Colman, F. & Stivale, C.J., 2006. '“A Creative Life”', Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities, 11.1.

Colman, F., 2006. '“Affective entropy: Art as Differential Form”', Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities, 11: 1 April, 169 – 178..

Colman, F., 2005. '“Deleuze’s Kiss: the sensory pause of screen affect”', Pli: The Warwick Journal of Philosophy, Vol 16, 101-113..

Colman, F., 2005. '“Hit me harder: the tranversality of becoming-adolescent”', Women and Culture, vol. 16, no. 3, winter 2005, 356-371..

Colman, F. and McCrea, C., 2005. '“The Digital Maypole”', Fibreculture Journal, Issue 6, 1-5.

Colman, F., 2003. '“The Maggot and the Velfaerdsdanskere: Jack Stevenson’s Lar’s Von Trier”', Metro: Screen Magazine, 138.

Colman, F., 2002. '"Passaic Boys are Hell: Robert Smithson's Tag as Temporal and Spatial Marker of the Geographical Self", in "Autobiogeography" considering space and identity"', Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture, Summer 2002: Volume 2, Number 3.

Presentations

Colman, F., 2011. 'Affective animal', Media, Communications and Cultural Studies Association (MeCCSA), University of Salford, Manchester, January 12-15.

Colman, F., 2011. 'Affective animal: becoming-sacred in reverse labour forms', Human- Animal / Humain-Animal, 20th/21st Century French and Francophone Studies International Colloquium, University of San Francisco USA, March 30-April 2, 2011, in Beyond Human: From Animality to Transhuman.

Colman, F., 2011. 'Affective Cinematographic Evolution (Bergson & CInema)', The Perception of Change: Space, Time, and Mobility after Henri Bergson, Mansfield College, The University of Oxford., 27 May, 2011.

Colman, F., 2011. 'Cinematographic Evolution: Smithson & Holt test Bergson & Deleuze', Bergson and his postmodern and immanent legacies, The Courtauld Institute of Art, London, 11-12 February.

Colman, F., 2011. 'Machinic mediatization and diagrammatic aesthetics', Creation, Crisis, Critique: 4th International Deleuze Studies Conference, Copenhagen Business School, The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts School of Architecture, The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts School of Visual Arts, Denmark, 27 - 29 June.

Colman, F., 2011. 'Notes on Cinematographic Evolution', Film-Philosophy Conference, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, UK, 6-8 July.

Colman, F., 2011. 'Sound affect: the political economy of women on screen', Sonic Futures: Soundscapes and the Language of Screen Media, NECS (European Network for Cinema and Media Studies), University of London, 23-26 June.

Colman, F., 2010. 'Affective Race', Impure Cinema: Interdisciplinary and Intercultural Approaches to World Cinema, University of Leeds, 1 - 4 December.

Colman, F. and MacCormack, P., 2010. 'Felicity Colman in conversation with Patricia MacCormack', Radical Aesthetics - Radical Art, University of Loughborough, UK, 17 November, 2010.

Colman, F., 2010. 'Plenary : ‘The Labour of the Refrain: What is Media Philosophy?’', ‘Connect, Continue, Create'. 3rd International Deleuze Studies Conference, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, 12-14 July, 2010.

Colman, F., 2010. 'Plenary: 'The Family Manifesto'', Schizoanalysis & Visual Culture, University of Cardiff, 1 - 2 June 2010.

Colman, F., 2010. 'Robert Smithson, Future Art : creating a new ecology', Landscape in Ruins., Urbis, Manchester, UK, 18 February 2010, in Urbis Research Forum Review, Vol. 1, Issue 3, “Landscapes”.

Colman, F., 2010. 'Shameless Mothers', What happened next? Feminist Television Studies in post-feminist times, University of Sunderland, UK, 16 September, 2010.

Colman, F., 2010. '‘Sound Manifesto: Lee Renaldo’s Notes for Robert Smithson’', Bigger than Words, Wider than Pictures: Noise, Affect, Politics, University of Salford, Manchester, 1-3 July, 2010.

Colman, F., 2009. 'Affective Subjectivity: the post-media socius of time making gender', Séismes/Seismic Shifts. 20th & 21st-Century French & Francophone Studies International Colloquium, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, U.S.A., 26-29 March 2009.

Colman, F., 2009. '‘After Guattari: Engels' Manchester Manifesto’', Connect Deleuze: The Second International Deleuze Studies Conference, Universität zu Köln, Germany, 10-12 August 2009.

Colman, F., 2009. '‘Notes on the Feminist Manifesto: the strategic use of hope’', “Hope: A Workshop on Feminist Theory”, Institute for Advanced Studies, the Institute for Cultural Research and the Centre for Gender and Women’s Studies, Lancaster University, UK, 8-9 January.

Colman, F., 2009. '‘What is Film-Philosophy?’', Second Annual Conference of Film and Philosophy, University of Dundee, Scotland, 16-18 July, 2009.

Colman, F., 2007. ''Affective Communities and Ritual Communications'', Gilles Deleuze: Texts and Images An International Conference, 9th Annual Comparative Literature Conference, University of South Carolina, Columbia, 5-7 April.

Colman, F., 2007. ''Deleuze's cinema system and Godard's Notre Musique: the skeletons of war and the spiders from Mars.'', The Modern French Research Seminar, The University of Cambridge, UK, May.

Colman, F., 2007. ''From the Skeleton to Life: Deleuze's Cinema Vectors'', IAPL 2007, 'Layering' (International Association of Philosophy and Literature), The University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus., 4-9 June.

Colman, F., 2007. '‘To make war: Deleuze’s metaphysical principles of the cinematographic event’', The Deleuze Event, The English Research Institute, Manchester Metropolitan University. Manchester, U.K., 8-9 September, in Deleuze A/V Journal, 6, video lecture.

Colman, F., 2006. '‘The Spinoza-Maypole’', ‘Wandering with Spinoza’, The Centre for Ideas, Victorian College of the Arts (VCA) Melbourne, 13-15 September.

Colman, F., 2006. '“The eternal sounds of the Stupid White Man: the resonating body politic in Jim Jarmusch’s Dead Man’', SCMS (Society for Media and Screen Studies), Vancouver, Canada, March.

Colman, F., 2005. '“Nihilist gest: they play without playing (elles jouent sans jeu)”', 21st Century French Colloque: Verbal, Visual, Virtual., The University of Florida, Florida, United States., April 1..

Colman, F., 2004. '“Affect in/of everyday life: sonic punctuation and gesture: vernacular communication”', Everyday Transformations: The Twenty-First Century Quotidian : Cultural Studies Association of Australasia, Perth, Australia, December 8.

Colman, F., 2004. '“Deleuze’s Opsigns and Sonsigns- Affect on screen”,', Experimenting with Intensities: Art, Science, Philosophy, Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada, May 12.

Colman, F., 2003. '“Iwakra Lain, Buffy Summers, and the Birth of the Storm Troopers: symbolic images of bodies"', The Flesh Made Text: Bodies, Theories, Cultures in the Post-Millennial Era, The University of Aristotle, Thessaloniki, Greece, May 18.

Colman, F., 2002. ''The Confessional: The Sound of the Female “I” in Contemporary Film'', The Film and History Association of Australia and New Zealand, 11th Biennial Conference, Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australia, 28 November.

Other Outputs

Colman, F., 2006. '‘Affective Women-Sense’', Feminist Actions Exhibition Catalogue Essay.