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The Emotional Life of Postmodern Film - Affect Theory's Other (Hardcover)
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The Emotional Life of Postmodern Film - Affect Theory's Other (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies
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Emotion and Postmodernism: is it possible to imagine an odder
couple, stranger bedfellows, less bad company? The Emotional Life
of Postmodern Film brings this unlikely pair into sustained
dialogue, arguing that the interdisciplinary body of scholarship
currently emerging under the rubric of "affect theory" may be
unexpectedly enriched by an encounter with the field that has
become its critical other. Across a series of radical
re-reappraisals of canonical postmodern texts, from Fredric
Jameson's Postmodernism to David Cronenberg's Crash, Duncan shows
that the same postmodern archive that has proven resistant to
strongly subject-based and object-oriented emotions, like anger and
sadness, proves all too congenial to a series of idiosyncratic,
borderline emotions, from knowingness, fascination and bewilderment
to boredom and euphoria. The analysis of these emotions, in turn,
promises to shake up scholarly consensus on two key counts. On the
one hand, it will restructure our sense of the place and role of
emotion in a critical enterprise that has long cast it as the
stodgy, subjective sister of a supposedly more critically
interesting and politically productive affect. On the other, it
will transform our perception of postmodernism as a now-historical
aesthetic and theoretical moment, teaching us to acknowledge more
explicitly and to name more clearly the emotional life that
energizes it.
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