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Author Fleming, David H., author.

Title Unbecoming cinema : unsettling encounters with ethical event films / David H. Fleming.

Publication Info. Bristol, UK ; Chicago, IL : Intellect, 2017.
©2017

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Description 1 online resource (214 pages)
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Contents Introduction: On Ethics and Evental Encounters; Part I: Exposing and Revealing; Chapter One: Death 24X A Haecceity: Or Deleuze, Life and the Ethico-Aesthetics of Documenting Suicide in (and off) The Bridge; Chapter Two: Cinema and/as Autism: Disorder-ing Movements from the Intellect to Intuition, Ego to the Eco, and 'Pre-chunked' Perception to In-forming Haecceitic 'Shapes' (via Deligny and Guattari); Part II: Distorting and Perverting; Chapter Three: Head Cinema as Body without Organs: On Jodorowsky's Bitter Pill Films and Their Spinozian ParallelsChapter Four: That's 'Really' Sick: Pervert Horror, Torture Porn(ology), Bad-Taste and Emetic Affect in Lucifer Valentine's Unbecoming 'Cinema of Repulsions'.
Summary Unbecoming Cinema explores the notion of cinema as a living, active agent, capable of unsettling and reconfiguring a person's thoughts, senses, and ethics. Film, according to David H. Fleming, is a dynamic force, arming audiences with the ability to see and make a difference in the world. Drawing heavily on Deleuze's philosophical insights, as well as those of Guattari and Badiou, the book critically examines unsettling and taboo footage from suicide documentaries to art therapy films, from portrayals of mental health and autism to torture porn. In investigating the effect of film on the mind and body, Fleming's shrewd analysis unites transgressive cinema with metaphysical concepts of the body and mind.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-205) and index.
Note This work is licensed by Knowledge Unlatched under a Creative Commons license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Language In English.
Subject Sensationalism in motion pictures.
Sensationalism in motion pictures.
Motion pictures -- Psychological aspects.
Motion pictures -- Psychological aspects.
Taboo in motion pictures.
Taboo in motion pictures.
Experimental films -- History and criticism.
Experimental films.
Motion pictures -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Motion pictures -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: 9781783207756 1783207752 (OCoLC)957507825
ISBN 1783207760 (electronic book)
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9781783207756
9781783207770 ePUB
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