%0 Journal Article
%T Filming a poem with a mobile phone and an intensive multiplicity: A creative pedagogy using stylistic analysis
%J Language and Literature
%@ 1461-7293
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/0963947019828232
%X A film poem is a cinematic work which uses a written, often canonical poem as its inspiration. Film poems frequently exceed the likely intentions of the poet, becoming something new; one creative work is used as a springboard for another. Typically, however, in film poems the poem¡¯s stylistic detail is largely irrelevant to its cinematic execution. In a previous article, I spotlighted how this oversight/limitation can be addressed by bringing film poems into stylistics teaching and assessment. That article showed how stylistic analysis of a poem can be used to drive generation of a screenplay for a film of the poem. But, it did not show how the film could be produced on that basis. In contrast, this article does just that, modelling how a student could make a film from a poem, with their mobile device, where stylistic analysis has been used to stimulate the screenplay. Accompanying this article is a film that I made on a mobile phone. This is of Michael Donaghy¡¯s poem, Machines. In developing this approach for producing film poems via stylistic analysis, I incorporate ideas from the philosopher, Gilles Deleuze, and from his collaboration with the psychoanalyst, F¨¦lix Guattari, in their book A Thousand Plateaus. In particular, I make use of their concept of ¡®intensive multiplicity¡¯. Generally, this article highlights how common ownership of mobile devices by university students, in many countries, can be used, in conjunction with stylistic analysis, to foster a different approach to interpreting poetry creatively which, in turn, can extend students¡¯ natural capacity for creative thinking
%K Creative pedagogy
%K creative thinking
%K creativity and stylistics
%K film poems
%K mobile phone filmmaking
%K pedagogical stylistics
%K performance stylistics
%K poetry
%K postdigital literary pedagogy
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0963947019828232