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Affect Poetics Of The New Hollywood eBook

Suspense, Paranoia, And Melancholy

by Hauke Lehmann
language: english
Publisher: De Gruyter, December of 2019 ‧
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How is affective experience produced in the cinema? And how can we write a history of this experience? By asking these questions, this study by Hauke Lehmann aims at rethinking our conception of a critical period in US film history - the New Hollywood: as a moment of crisis that can neither be reduced to economic processes of adaption nor to a collection of masterpieces. Rather, the fine-grained analysis of core films reveals the power of cinematic images to affect their audiences - to confront them with the new. The films of the New Hollywood redefine the divisions of the classical genre system in a radical way and thereby transform the way spectators are addressed affectively in the cinema. The study describes a complex interplay between three modes of affectivity: suspense, paranoia, and melancholy. All three, each in their own way, implicate spectators in the deep-seated contradictions of their own feelings and their ways of being in the world: their relations to history, to society, and to cultural fantasy. On this basis, Affect Poetics of the New Hollywood projects an original conception of film history: as an affective history which can be re-written up to the present day.

Affect Poetics Of The New Hollywood

Suspense, Paranoia, And Melancholy

by Hauke Lehmann

Property Description
ISBN: 9783110579727
Publisher: De Gruyter
Release Date: December of 2019
Language: English
Format: eBook
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Collection: Cinepoetics – English Edition
Categories: eBooks in English > Art > Cinema
eBooks in English > Social Sciences and Humanities > Sociology
eBooks in English > Others
EAN: 9783110579727
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