Affect Poetics of the New Hollywood : : Suspense, Paranoia, and Melancholy / / Hauke Lehmann.
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 reduc...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package English 2020 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2019] ©2020 |
Year of Publication: | 2019 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Cinepoetics – English edition ,
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (VIII, 276 p.) |
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Other title: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Splitting the Spectator -- 2 Suspense: Forms of Cinematic Thinking -- 3 Paranoia: Forms of Mediatization -- 4 Melancholy: Ways of Perceiving History -- 5 A History of Feeling -- List of figures -- Bibliography -- Subject index -- Name index |
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Summary: | 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. |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9783110580761 9783110696288 9783110696271 9783110616859 9783110610765 9783110664232 9783110610369 9783110606348 |
ISSN: | 2569-4294 ; |
DOI: | 10.1515/9783110580761 |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | Hauke Lehmann. |