Deleuze, altered states and film / Anna Powell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Powell, Anna.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Altered states of consciousness in motion pictures.

Altered states of consciousness.

Motion pictures--Philosophy.

Motion pictures.

Deleuze, Gilles, 1925-1995--Criticism and interpretation.

Deleuze, Gilles.

Physical Description:

vii, 211 p. ; 24 cm.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Deleuze, Altered States and Film offers a typology of altered states, defining dream, hallucination, memory, trance and ecstasy in their cinematic expression. The book presents altered states films as significant neurological, psychological and philosophical experiences. Chapters engage with films that simultaneously present and induce altered consciousness. They consider dream states and the popularisation of alterity in drugs films. The altered bodies of erotic arousal and trance states are explored, using haptics and synaesthesia. Cinematic distortions of space and time as well as new digit

Contents:

COPYRIGHT; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Altered States, Affect and Film; CHAPTER 1 The Dream Machine; CHAPTER 2 Pharmacoanalysis; CHAPTER 3 Altered Body Maps and the Cinematic Sensorium; CHAPTER 4 Altered States of Time; Conclusion: Becoming-Fractal; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [189]-199) and index.

ISBN:

0-7486-5113-6

0748632824 (hbk.) :

9780748632824 (hbk.) :

1-281-25203-4

9786611252038

0-7486-3240-9

OCLC:

476144859