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    "pk": 42917,
    "title": "Telescopic Relationality: Visualizing the Archipelagic Americas in Burn!",
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    "abstract": "This essay examines the narrative feature film \nBurn! \n(1969) to name a relation wherein the telescope  serves as a tool for envisioning possibility rather than hierarchy. It  argues that the film positions the telescope within its diegesis as a  provocatively paradoxical tool of sight: characters  use the optical instrument to magnify a vision of the archipelagic  Americas without necessarily crystallizing the perceived image’s  meaning. Approaching the practice of filmmaking as a symbolic telescope  in its own right, the essay suggests that the broader  implication of \nBurn!\n’s telescopic relationality is,  once again, seemingly counterintuitive: it is a film that shows the  Caribbean and imagines what it may look like after a revolution  precisely in order to emphasize the phenomena of not seeing  and not knowing. The film’s counterintuitive use of the telescope  ultimately implicates viewers and compels them to understand islands in  terms of alternative American connectivities rather than through  discourses of insignificance.",
    "language": "en",
    "license": {
        "name": "Creative Commons Attribution 4.0",
        "short_name": "CC BY 4.0",
        "text": "<p>Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use. No additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.</p>",
        "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0"
    },
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "Archipelagic Americas, revolutionary Caribbean, Burn!, Gillo Pontecorvo"
        }
    ],
    "section": "SPECIAL FORUM: Archipelagoes/Oceans/American Visuality",
    "is_remote": true,
    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/98h08803",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Kathleen",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "DeGuzman",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "San Francisco State University",
            "department": "None"
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": "2019-06-03T12:51:13+01:00",
    "date_accepted": "2019-06-03T12:51:13+01:00",
    "date_published": "2019-07-06T22:16:23+01:00",
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}