Unbecoming cinema : unsettling encounters with ethical event films / David H. Fleming.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fleming, David H., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sensationalism in motion pictures.

Motion pictures--Psychological aspects.

Motion pictures.

Taboo in motion pictures.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (226 pages) : digital file(s).

Place of Publication:

Bristol Intellect 2017

Bristol, England ; Chicago, Illinois : Intellect, 2017.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Unbecoming Cinema explores the notion of cinema as a living, active agent, capable of unsettling and reconfiguring a person's thoughts, senses, and ethics. Film, according to David H. Fleming, is a dynamic force, arming audiences with the ability to see and make a difference in the world. Drawing heavily on Deleuze's philosophical insights, as well as those of Guattari and Badiou, the book critically examines unsettling and taboo footage from suicide documentaries to art therapy films, from portrayals of mental health and autism to torture porn. In investigating the effect of film on the mind and body, Fleming's shrewd analysis unites transgressive cinema with metaphysical concepts of the body and mind.

Contents:

Introduction: on ethics and evental encounters

Part I. Exposing and revealing

Death 24X a haecceity: or Deleuze, life and the ethico-aesthetics of documenting suicide in (and off) The bridge

Cinema and/as autism: disorder-ing movements from the intellect to intuition, ego to the eco, and 'pre-chunked' perception to in-forming haecceitic 'shapes' (via Deligny and Guattari)

Part II. Distorting and perverting

Head cinema as body without organs: on Jodorowsky's Bitter Pill films and their Spinozian parallels

That's 'really' sick: pervert horror, torture porn(ology), bad-taste and emetic affect in Lucifer Valentine's Unbecoming 'Cinema of repulsions.'

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

CC BY-NC-ND

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed July 27, 2017).

ISBN:

9781783207763

1783207760

OCLC:

993476473

Access Restriction:

Unrestricted online access