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While the characters are undoubtedly different, Kidman is described as a " grizzled character " with a " disorientingly scorched, ruined exterior" ; the " dilapidated shell of a woman " and so unrecognisable it takes time to realise that "the sunburnt piece of beef jerky up on screen is none other than the alabaster beauty from BMX Bandits and Far and Away" , while Bale's transformation is breathlessly described as " uncanny " and " shape-shifting " and his dramatic weight gain as looking " pretty husky" .

The 29-year-old frontwoman of the deceptively upbeat audio/visual/performance tour de force Japanese Breakfast zeroes in on a nearby spot: Lucky Pig, a joint a block away, where the lighting is disorientingly split between incandescent on one side and fluorescent on the other.

For landlubber pilots, seaplanes involve learning an intriguing combination of sailing and flying, for once on the water, a floatplane or flying boat's handling characteristics are disorientingly unfamiliar.

Action is often obscured thru mise-en-scenes that are either disorientingly dark or blindingly lit.

Epic narrative and epic description, historical particularity and figurai inventiveness, the mappable and disorientingly unmappable, all work dialectically to generate the novel's distinctive socio-spatial landscape, to repeat Bowen's words, as "at once 'other' and our own."

If [Albert's] aphoristic style occasionally gives way to the telegrammatic, or the narrative becomes disorientingly impressionistic, or the narrator's rage about C-sections and social niceties swamping breastfeeding overwhelms her sympathy, it all makes perfect sense and is finally enlightening, sharply moving and true." ELLEN AKINS

It is this experience of the city that Lum's collages attune us to, defamiliarizing the urban environment by turning its details disorientingly on their heads and embedding them in arrangements of paint that revel in the accidental aesthetics of the street.

As Dominick LaCapra has argued, traumatic memories produce a dissociation between affect and representation, "one disorientingly feels what one cannot represent, one numbingly represents what one cannot feel" (LaCapra, 2001: 42), while the mourning process should in fact help to rearticulate the connection between affect and representation.