UID:
almafu_9961310969702883
Format:
1 online resource (xi, 283 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-3995-0113-5
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1-3995-0112-7
Series Statement:
Edinburgh scholarship online
Content:
〈i〉Abject Pleasures in the Cinematic〈/i〉 examines the cinematic strategies that elicit visceral pleasure - tears, goosebumps, sexual arousal, laughter-even in the face of content that is crass, politically problematic, or unethical. 〈br〉〈br〉While there might be a progressive predisposition within our discipline, affect pledges no allegiance to any particular political inclination. Progressives, or progressive content, does not hold a monopoly on affect. The beautiful has no inherent bond to the good (i.e., morally good, or having cultural merit), rather it is an affective experience, and it might come to us in the most unlikely and unsavory places. Pornography, even with the most regressive content, wields the possibility to be sexually arousing even despite our own ethical objections. While well-intended academics routinely claim that watching people get hurt is not funny, and we might appreciate the gesture to cultivate our better angels, but such assertions do not necessarily align with our lived-experience.
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 16 Nov 2023).
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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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List of Figures --
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Acknowledgments --
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Preface --
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1 Abject Pleasures in the Cinematic: A Taxonomy of Cinematic Strategies for Eliciting Pleasure --
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PART 1 --
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2 On the Beautiful --
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3 Neo-Giallo: "It's beautiful, it's beautiful, it's beautiful," the Affective Experience in Suspiria --
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4 Musicality: Poetic Ruptures in Spike Lee's 25th Hour, and Chris Cunningham/Björk's Music Video "All Is Full of Love" --
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PART 2 --
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5 On Sexual Arousal --
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6 Pornography: Erotic Disavowal, Regressive Content, and the Chikan (Sub-)Genre --
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7 Romance: The Handmaiden and its Arousing Spectacles --
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PART 3 --
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8 On Laughter --
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9 Body Humor: Dick Pics in Cringe Comedy and the Carnivalesque Grotesque Body --
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10 Conclusion: The Limitation of Theories of Affect --
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Bibliography --
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Media-ography --
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Index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781399501101
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9781399501125
URL:
https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/9781399501125/type/BOOK
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