UID:
almafu_9961985841602883
Format:
1 online resource (284 pages).
ISBN:
9783110579727
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3110579723
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9783110580761
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3110580764
Series Statement:
Cinepoetics ; volume 7
Content:
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.
Note:
First published in German under the title Affektpoetiken des New Hollywood. Suspense, Paranoia und Melancholie (De Gruyter, 2017).
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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Acknowledgments --
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1 Splitting the Spectator --
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2 Suspense: Forms of Cinematic Thinking --
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3 Paranoia: Forms of Mediatization --
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4 Melancholy: Ways of Perceiving History --
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5 A History of Feeling --
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List of figures --
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Bibliography --
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Subject index --
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Name index
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Issued also in print.
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In English.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783110579604
Additional Edition:
ISBN 311057960X
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9783110580761
URL:
http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
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