Scholars@Duke
Tony Ballas

Selected Publications

Colonialism, Cinema and Revolution

Journal Article Caribbean Quarterly · October 2, 2022 Full text Open Access Cite

Is it Possible to Represent the Sexual Relation in Cinema? [Est-il possible de représenter le rapport sexuel au cinema?]1,2

Journal Article Language and Psychoanalysis · January 1, 2022 This article offers a reflection on the Lacanian theory of the representation of the sexual relation in film. It draws on the Lacanian logic of sexuation and its interpretation by Joan Copjec and Slavoj analyzing what the author calls the cinematic non-rel ... Full text Cite

Film theory after Copjec

Journal Article Canadian Review of American Studies · March 1, 2021 The importation of Lacanian psychoanalysis into film theory in the 1970s and 1980s ushered in a new era of cinema scholarship and criticism. Figures including Raymond Bellour, Laura Mulvey, and Christian Metz are often considered the pioneers of applying L ... Full text Open Access Cite

Review of Cinema/Politics/Philosophy

Journal Article CINEJ Cinema Journal · March 11, 2020 Review of Nico Baumbach, Cinema/Politics/Philosophy. New York: Columbia University Press, 2018. 248 pp. ISBN 9780231184236, $28.00 (pbk) ... Full text Cite

Jazz and Cocktails: Rethinking Race and the Sound of Film Noir

Journal Article Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television · July 3, 2019 Full text Cite

Thieving Three-Fingered Jack: Tales of a Jamaican Outlaw, 1780–2015

Journal Article Caribbean Quarterly · April 3, 2019 Full text Cite

Jazz as Visual Language: Film, Television and the Dissonant Image by Nicolas Pillai

Journal Article Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media · January 30, 2019 Full text Cite

Eyes On: Julie Buffalohead and Eyes On: Shimabuku

Journal Article Journal of Visual Art Practice · January 2, 2019 Full text Cite

The Black Skyscraper: Architecture and the Perception of Race

Journal Article COMPARATIVE LITERATURE STUDIES · 2019 Cite

The Orientation of Future Cinema: Technology, Aesthetics, Spectacle

Journal Article CINEJ Cinema Journal · April 25, 2018 Book Review: Bruce Isaacs, The Orientation of Future Cinema: Technology, Aesthetics, Spectacle. Bloomsbury, 2014. 320 pp. ISBN 9781628924312 (paperback) ... Full text Cite

Hip hop and monumentality: Lupe Fiasco's re-narrativization of the lorraine motel

Journal Article Analisi Linguistica e Letteraria · January 1, 2018 This paper employs Mario Gooden's diagnoses of African American museums, Henri Lefebvre's critique of monumental architecture, and Henry Louis Gates Jr.'s notion of Signifyin(g) toward the examination of American rap artist Lupe Fiasco's re-narrativization ... Cite