Bodies in suspense: time and affect in cinema
According to Alanna Thain, suspense films allow us to experience the relation between two bodies: that of the film and that of the viewer. Bodies in Suspense presents a powerful new way to think through postdigital cinema and the affective turn in critical theory, arguing that the ?body in time? enables us to experience the temporal dimension of the body directly--from publisher's website.
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- Full title :Bodies in suspense : time and affect in cinema / Alanna Thain.
Summary
According to Alanna Thain, suspense films allow us to experience the relation between two bodies: that of the film and that of the viewer. Bodies in Suspense presents a powerful new way to think through postdigital cinema and the affective turn in critical theory, arguing that the ?body in time? enables us to experience the temporal dimension of the body directly--from publisher's website.
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- Publication Date:©2017
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):University of Minnesota Press
- Place of Publication:Minneapolis
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2017
The Physical Object
- Description:332 pages : : illustrations ; : 23 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780816692934, 0816692939, 9780816692958, 0816692955
- oclc:ocn954203383
- LC Classification:PN1995.9.S668
- Dewey Decimal:791.43/6584
Table of Contents
Introduction. Time crimes, or feeling difference made -- A free replay : Vertigo and the spiral of time -- Into the folds : David Lynch's Hollywood trilogy -- Suzhou River and the movement-vision of love -- Time takings : suspended reanimations and the pulse of postdigital cinema -- Conclusion. Affective atmospherics and living time in cinema.
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