Affect Poetics of the New Hollywood - Suspense, Paranoia, and Melancholy (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	De Gruyter
Country of origin:	Germany
Series:	Cinepoetics - English edition
Release date:	December 2019
First published:	2020
Authors:	Hauke Lehmann
Translators:	James Lattimer
Dimensions:	230 x 155mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	284
ISBN-13:	978-3-11-057960-4
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Communication studies > Media studies Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > From 1900 > Art styles, 1960 - > Electronic & video art
LSN:	3-11-057960-X
Barcode:	9783110579604

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