Temporal Looping and Pleating in Spring Breakers (Harmony Korine, 2012)

This article is about the cinematic presentation of time, arguing that contemporary cinema increasingly draws on musical structures to organize images. Drawing on a Deleuzian conception of time in cinema, I propose and develop the idea of a morph-image. In the case of Spring Breakers, this musical s...

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Main Author: Steen Ledet Christiansen
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Published: Université de Bourgogne 2022-12-01
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description This article is about the cinematic presentation of time, arguing that contemporary cinema increasingly draws on musical structures to organize images. Drawing on a Deleuzian conception of time in cinema, I propose and develop the idea of a morph-image. In the case of Spring Breakers, this musical structure is that of electronic dance music, that intensifies and amplifies experience through two primary temporal forms: looping and pleating. Time repeats and returns, brushing against itself. In so doing, Spring Breakers’ musical form expresses the tension between a closed or open future, what Nina Power has called the “weaponization of time.”
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spelling doaj-art-6a8637ca0d3842ca8697fa914a342d062025-08-20T02:26:26ZengUniversité de BourgogneInterfaces2647-67542022-12-014810.4000/interfaces.5792Temporal Looping and Pleating in Spring Breakers (Harmony Korine, 2012)Steen Ledet ChristiansenThis article is about the cinematic presentation of time, arguing that contemporary cinema increasingly draws on musical structures to organize images. Drawing on a Deleuzian conception of time in cinema, I propose and develop the idea of a morph-image. In the case of Spring Breakers, this musical structure is that of electronic dance music, that intensifies and amplifies experience through two primary temporal forms: looping and pleating. Time repeats and returns, brushing against itself. In so doing, Spring Breakers’ musical form expresses the tension between a closed or open future, what Nina Power has called the “weaponization of time.”https://journals.openedition.org/interfaces/5792dubstepfutureloopingmorphingpleatingpost-cinema
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Temporal Looping and Pleating in Spring Breakers (Harmony Korine, 2012)
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title Temporal Looping and Pleating in Spring Breakers (Harmony Korine, 2012)
title_full Temporal Looping and Pleating in Spring Breakers (Harmony Korine, 2012)
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title_short Temporal Looping and Pleating in Spring Breakers (Harmony Korine, 2012)
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