Lawrence Garcia

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Journal articles, book reviews, conference presentations.
Journal Articles


“The Two Mabuses: Agency and Totality in the Conspiracy Thriller,” accepted at New Review of Film and Television Studies, forthcoming 2026.

“The Four Forms of Non-Fiction Cinema: Modality and Expressivity in Documentary Classification,” Journal of Cinema and Media Studies 64, no. 3 (Spring 2025), forthcoming 2025.`


Book Reviews

“Deleuze and His Critics,” Review of Gilles Deleuze and Film Criticism: Philosophy, Theory, and the Individual Film, eds. Dominic Lash and Hoi Lun Law, Discourse 46, no. 1 (Winter 2024): 176–182.
https://doi.org/10.1353/dis.2024.a947952

Conference Presentations
“Ambiguities of Anaphora: Deleuzian Character Identity in Two Films by Hong Sang-soo,” Film and Media Studies Association of Canada Conference, Montreal, June 2024.
“Toward an Inferentialist Semantic Model of Documentary Theory,” Society for Cognitive Studies of the Moving Image, Budapest, June 2024.
“Documentary Semantics: For an Inferentialist Model of Non-Fiction Cinema,” Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, Boston, March 2024.
“Any-Space-Whatevers: Non-Human Affect in Au hasard Balthazar and EO,” Film and Media Studies Association of Canada Conference, Toronto, May 2023.
“Image and Sign in Gilles Deleuze’s Cinema 1 and Cinema 2,” Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, Denver, April 2023.
“The Four Forms of Non-Fiction Film,” Film and Media Studies Association of Canada Conference, Online, May 2022.
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