Unbecoming cinema unsettling encounters with ethical event films
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. Drawi...
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Bristol, UK
Intellect
2017, [2017]
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Table of 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.'
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-205) and index