The forms of the affects / Eugenie Brinkema.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brinkema, Eugenie, 1980- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Film criticism.

Formalism (Literary analysis).

Affect (Psychology).

Critical theory.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (366 pages)

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2014.

Summary:

What is the relationship between a cinematic grid of color and that most visceral of negative affects, disgust? How might anxiety be a matter of an interrupted horizontal line, or grief a figure of blazing light?Offering a bold corrective to the emphasis on embodiment and experience in recent affect theory, Eugenie Brinkema develops a novel mode of criticism that locates the forms of particular affects within the specific details of cinematic and textual construction. Through close readings of works by Roland Barthes, Hollis Frampton, Sigmund Freud, Peter Greenaway, Michael Haneke, Alfred Hitchcock, Søren Kierkegaard, and David Lynch, Brinkema shows that deep attention to form, structure, and aesthetics enables a fundamental rethinking of the study of sensation. In the process, she delves into concepts as diverse as putrescence in French gastronomy, the role of the tear in philosophies of emotion, Nietzschean joy as a wild aesthetic of repetition, and the psychoanalytic theory of embarrassment. Above all, this provocative work is a call to harness the vitality of the affective turn for a renewed exploration of the possibilities of cinematic form.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

PREFACE Ten Points to Begin

CHAPTER ONE A TEAR THAT DOES NOT DROP, BUT FOLDS

CHAPTER TWO FILM THEORY'S ABSENT CENTER

INTERVAL Solitude

CHAPTER THREE THE ILLUMINATION OF LIGHT

CHAPTER FOUR GRIEF AND THE UNDIALECTICAL IMAGE

CHAPTER FIVE AESTHETIC EXCLUSIONS AND THE WORSE THAN THE WORST

CHAPTER SIX DISGUST AND THE CINEMA OF HAUT GOÛT

INTERVAL Formalism and Affectivity

CHAPTER SEVEN INTERMITTENCY, EMBARRASSMENT, DISMAY

CHAPTER EIGHT NOTHING/WILL HAVE TAKEN PLACE/ BUT THE PLACE: OPEN WATER ANXIETY

CHAPTER NINE TO BEGIN AGAIN: THE INGRESSION OF JOYFUL FORMS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

NOTES

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

Notes:

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ISBN:

9780822376774

0822376776

OCLC:

868998707