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The Emotional Life of Postmodern Film - Affect Theory's Other (Paperback): Pansy Duncan The Emotional Life of Postmodern Film - Affect Theory's Other (Paperback)
Pansy Duncan
R1,383 Discovery Miles 13 830 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

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.

The Emotional Life of Postmodern Film - Affect Theory's Other (Hardcover): Pansy Duncan The Emotional Life of Postmodern Film - Affect Theory's Other (Hardcover)
Pansy Duncan
R4,596 Discovery Miles 45 960 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

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.

Fredric Jameson and Film Theory - Marxism, Allegory, and Geopolitics in World Cinema (Paperback): Jeremi Szaniawski, Keith B.... Fredric Jameson and Film Theory - Marxism, Allegory, and Geopolitics in World Cinema (Paperback)
Jeremi Szaniawski, Keith B. Wagner, Michael Cramer; Dudley Andrew, John Mackay, …
R798 Discovery Miles 7 980 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
The Green Thread - Dialogues with the Vegetal World (Hardcover): Patricia Vieira, Monica Gagliano, John Charles Ryan The Green Thread - Dialogues with the Vegetal World (Hardcover)
Patricia Vieira, Monica Gagliano, John Charles Ryan; Contributions by Tom Bristow, Pansy Duncan, …
R4,325 Discovery Miles 43 250 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

The Green Thread: Dialogues with the Vegetal World is an interdisciplinary collection of essays in the emerging field of Plant Studies. The volume is the first of its kind to bring together a dynamic body of scholarship that shares a critique of long-standing human perceptions of plants as lacking autonomy, agency, consciousness, and, intelligence. The leading metaphor of the book-"the green thread", echoing poet Dylan Thomas' phrase "the green fuse"-carries multiple meanings. On a more apparent level, "the green thread" is what weaves together the diverse approaches of this collection: an interest in the vegetal that goes beyond single disciplines and specialist discourses, and one that not only encourages but necessitates interdisciplinary and even interspecies dialogue. On another level, "the green thread" links creative and historical productions to the materiality of the vegetal-a reality reflecting our symbiosis with oxygen-producing beings. In short, The Green Thread refers to the conversations about plants that transcend strict disciplinary boundaries as well as to the possibility of dialogue with plants.

Screening the Posthuman: Missy Molloy, Pansy Duncan, Claire Henry Screening the Posthuman
Missy Molloy, Pansy Duncan, Claire Henry
R821 Discovery Miles 8 210 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

From AI to climate change, recent technological, ecological, and cultural transformations have unsettled established assumptions about the relationship between the human and the more-than-human world. Screening the Posthuman addresses a heterogenous body of twenty-first century films that turn to the figure of the "posthuman" as a means of exploring this development. Through close analyses of films as diverse as Kûki ningyô [Air Doll] (dir. Hirokazu Koreeda 2009), Testrol és lélekrol [On Body and Soul] (dir. Ildiko Enyedi 2017) and Nomadland (dir. Chloé Zhao 2020), this wide-ranging volume shows that, while often identified as the remit of science fiction, the posthuman on screen crosses filmic genres, national contexts, and industrial settings. In the process, posthuman cinema emphasizes humanity's entanglement in broader biological, technological, and social worlds and exposes new models of subjectivity, community, and desire. In advancing these arguments, Screening the Posthuman draws on scholarship associated with critical posthumanist theory—an ongoing project unified by a decentering of the "human". As the first systematic, full-length application of this body of scholarship to cinema, Screening the Posthuman advocates for a rigorous posthumanist critique that avoids both humanist nostalgia and transhumanist fantasy in its attention to the excitements and anxieties of posthuman experience.

Fredric Jameson and Film Theory - Marxism, Allegory, and Geopolitics in World Cinema (Hardcover): Jeremi Szaniawski, Keith B.... Fredric Jameson and Film Theory - Marxism, Allegory, and Geopolitics in World Cinema (Hardcover)
Jeremi Szaniawski, Keith B. Wagner, Michael Cramer; Dudley Andrew, John Mackay, …
R1,952 Discovery Miles 19 520 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
The Green Thread - Dialogues with the Vegetal World (Paperback): Patricia Vieira, Monica Gagliano, John Charles Ryan The Green Thread - Dialogues with the Vegetal World (Paperback)
Patricia Vieira, Monica Gagliano, John Charles Ryan; Contributions by Tom Bristow, Pansy Duncan, …
R1,696 Discovery Miles 16 960 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The Green Thread: Dialogues with the Vegetal World is an interdisciplinary collection of essays in the emerging field of Plant Studies. The volume is the first of its kind to bring together a dynamic body of scholarship that shares a critique of long-standing human perceptions of plants as lacking autonomy, agency, consciousness, and, intelligence. The leading metaphor of the book-"the green thread", echoing poet Dylan Thomas' phrase "the green fuse"-carries multiple meanings. On a more apparent level, "the green thread" is what weaves together the diverse approaches of this collection: an interest in the vegetal that goes beyond single disciplines and specialist discourses, and one that not only encourages but necessitates interdisciplinary and even interspecies dialogue. On another level, "the green thread" links creative and historical productions to the materiality of the vegetal-a reality reflecting our symbiosis with oxygen-producing beings. In short, The Green Thread refers to the conversations about plants that transcend strict disciplinary boundaries as well as to the possibility of dialogue with plants.

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