Pauline Kael and the Western genre as critical displacement of self & nation: metaphorics and affects of 'taste' in American film criticism West, Patrick 2014, Pauline Kael and the Western genre as critical displacement of self & nation: metaphorics and affects of 'taste' in American film criticism, Text, vol. Special Issue: Taste and, and in, writing and publishing, no. 26, pp. 1-10. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads west-paulinkael-2014.pdf Published version application/pdf 370.27KB 307 Title Pauline Kael and the Western genre as critical displacement of self & nation: metaphorics and affects of 'taste' in American film criticism Author(s) West, Patrick orcid.org/0000-0003-4957-4294 Journal name Text Volume number Special Issue: Taste and, and in, writing and publishing Issue number 26 Start page 1 End page 10 Total pages 10 Publisher Australasian Association of Writing Programs (AAWP) Place of publication Gold Coast, Qld. Publication date 2014-04 ISSN 1327-9556 Keyword(s) creative writing taste Pauline Kael film criticism affect senses Summary Pauline Kael (1919–2001) is one of the most influential American film critics of the second half of the twentieth century. Many people are writing on her presently, with at least half an eye to her future cultural, political and historical importance. Certainly the full impact of Kael’s work, both within and beyond the borders of cinema (however defined), has not yet been established. This article unpacks the mechanisms and operations of ‘taste’ in Kael’s writings by using two notions drawn from Roland Barthes’ observations about another key figure of current cultural critique: Julia Kristeva. The comparison of Kael with Kristeva is not dwelt upon; instead, the article focuses on how Kael used the concepts of ‘taste’ and ‘dis-taste’ to draw her readership into a field of what might be termed ‘permanent dissent’. This article concludes by sketching out why Jewish-American Kael’s taste might endure, through the dual transition she occupies from a Cold War to a post-Cold War period, and from an era when cinema was the supreme, undisputed, screen artform, to the rise of the myriad screen technologies of the networked, Internet age. Language eng Field of Research 190402 Creative Writing (incl Playwriting) Socio Economic Objective 970119 Expanding Knowledge through Studies of the Creative Arts and Writing HERDC Research category C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal Copyright notice ©2014, Australasian Association of Writing Programs (AAWP) Free to Read? Yes Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30063575 Document type: Journal Article Collections: Faculty of Arts and Education School of Communication and Creative Arts Open Access Collection 2018 ERA Submission Related Links Link Description Connect to published version (restricted access) Go to link with your DU access privileges     Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Every reasonable effort has been made to ensure that permission has been obtained for items included in DRO. If you believe that your rights have been infringed by this repository, please contact drosupport@deakin.edu.au. Versions Version Filter Type Fri, 23 May 2014, 14:35:55 EST Mon, 26 May 2014, 08:10:22 EST Mon, 26 May 2014, 08:11:13 EST Thu, 19 Jun 2014, 12:13:09 EST Thu, 19 Jun 2014, 15:01:06 EST Fri, 20 Jun 2014, 11:40:42 EST Fri, 20 Jun 2014, 11:42:37 EST Fri, 20 Jun 2014, 11:51:36 EST Wed, 06 Dec 2017, 06:06:42 EST Fri, 07 Sep 2018, 17:08:40 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 0 times in TR Web of Science Cited 0 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 726 Abstract Views, 308 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Fri, 23 May 2014, 14:35:42 EST by Patrick West