Both these drawings were created on Fabriano 140gsm, with 2H and 2B and 6B pencils; Originals are approximately 210 x 590mm and 420 x 590mm respectively.
In discussing the book (suggested by Dr Holmes), by Steven Shaviro, "Post-Cinematic Affect: on Grace Jones, Boarding Gate and Southland Tales." (2015)...
This book was based on a thesis provided by Steven Shaviro in 2010, whilst at Wayne State University USA, which I managed to get hold of a copy, via;
http://www.film-philosophy.com/index.php/f-p/article/view/220/0
In this extended article, published in Film-Philosophy Magazine (Vol. 14, No.1), Shaviro talks about Jones and Argentino, together with Timberlake, (the main actors / characters of the three titles of interest in his writings): Shaviro talks about the fact that as figures of post-cinematic celebrity status, they are continuously interrelating through various media environments such as reality shows, talk shows, record recordings, charity events, films and music videos et cetera, together with the traditional mediums of newspaper and gossip columns.
These celebrities appear to us to be "everywhere and nowhere" at the same time.
Our engagement with them, therefore, seems to be highly affective and our perception of them whilst we emotionally engage with them is also ironically distant and mediated from us.
Shaviro suggests that even though they are very familiar to us all, they are also out of our reach. Even when they are publicly humiliated through various life events and we feel really strong emotional connections with them, we are unable to share in their pain completely because we simply do not know them.
Whilst they undergo all the usual humour of human frailties and vulnerabilities, they also appear to possess stoicism of complete invulnerability through this mediated experience. Even though we engage deeply at what seems a personal level, they have no idea who we are and so two-way feedback of 'knowing', in a social sense, is impossible. (Shaviro 2010, page 9).
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