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Where does suture collide?

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suture2 CONSTRUCTSSuture (film)MILLER · SIGNIFIER SUTURESuture zoneDEWEY & BIRD · PLATE JOIN

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Film theory and psychoanalysis

how a film binds its viewer into its story, covering gaps between shots so the spectator takes a prepared place.

A concept describing how a film binds its viewer into the story it tells, so the gaps between shots are covered over and the spectator takes up a place the film has prepared. Jacques-Alain Miller (1966, translated in Screen in 1977) coined suture in Lacanian theory for the way a speaking subject is stitched into the chain of signs; Jean-Pierre Oudart (1969, translated in Screen in 1977) carried it into film theory to explain how the shot and reverse-shot pattern sews the viewer into the fiction. The referent is a relation between a text and its subject, argued in essays rather than measured, and it has nothing to do with a surgical stitch, a join between crustal plates, or the splitting seam of a seed pod.[1][2][3][4]

Unit
One account of how a text positions its viewing subject
Recovery means
Not applicable
Measured by
Argued through close reading of shot patterns and editing, not quantified

Geology and tectonics

the belt of deformed rock marking where two continental or crustal blocks collided and welded together after an ocean closed.

In plate tectonics, the belt of deformed rock that marks where two continental or crustal blocks have collided and welded together after an ocean between them closed. Dewey and Bird (1970) set out this meaning in their account of mountain belts and the new global tectonics, and Dewey (1977), in Suture zone complexities, reviewed how tangled these join lines can be. The referent is a scar in the crust tens to hundreds of kilometres wide, mapped from rock and structure, and it is unrelated to a stitch in a wound, a viewer bound to a film, or the splitting seam of a fruit.[5][6]

Unit
One belt of collision-welded crust, mapped along its length and width
Recovery means
Not applicable
Measured by
Mapped from ophiolites, deformed rock, and structural and geophysical surveys of the collision belt

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References

  1. Miller, J.-A. (1966). La suture: Éléments de la logique du signifiant. Cahiers pour l'Analyse, 1, 37–49.
  2. Oudart, J.-P. (1969). La suture. Cahiers du Cinéma, 211, 36–39.
  3. Miller, J.-A. (1977). Suture (elements of the logic of the signifier). Screen, 18(4), 24–34. https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/18.4.24
  4. Oudart, J.-P. (1977). Cinema and suture. Screen, 18(4), 35–47. https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/18.4.35
  5. Dewey, J. F., & Bird, J. M. (1970). Mountain belts and the new global tectonics. Journal of Geophysical Research, 75(14), 2625–2647. https://doi.org/10.1029/JB075i014p02625
  6. Dewey, J. F. (1977). Suture zone complexities: A review. Tectonophysics, 40(1–2), 53–67. https://doi.org/10.1016/0040-1951(77)90029-4

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