%0 Journal Article
%T Genre-%!$?Ing: Harmony Korine¡¯s Cinema Of Poetry
%A Tom Austin O'Connor
%J Wide Screen
%D 2009
%I Subaltern Media
%X This study analyses Harmony Korine¡¯s films according to the two distinct stages of his cinematic career thus far. The first phase incorporates his screenplays that were directed by Larry Clark ¨C Kids and Ken Park. The second incorporates the films that he both writes and directs: Gummo and Julien Donkey-boy. All of Korine¡¯s films are evaluated in the context of how they satirise and disempower his characters¡¯ tendencies toward nihilism and alienation. The films that he both writes and directs, especially, are significant because they utilise Pier Paolo Pasolini¡¯s notion of the cinema of poetry, which presents the diegetic realities of the films from wholly-subjective perspectives which, because they allow for poetic re-mediations of our perceptual habits, can re-write and transform any tendencies toward disaffection and desensitisation. All of Korine¡¯s films reject common-sense and normalising representations for the perspectives of non-dominant voices or the poetic speakers of disenfranchised populations¨Cespecially the young, the poor, people with disabilities, and the mentally ill¨Cwhich productively challenge their commonplace portrayals in the mass media.
%K cinema
%K alienation
%U http://widescreenjournal.org/index.php/journal/article/view/18/20