Bodies in Suspense : Time and Affect in Cinema by Alanna Thain (2017, Hardcover)

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PublisherUniversity of Minnesota Press
ISBN-100816692939
ISBN-139780816692934
eBay Product ID (ePID)227693760

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Number of Pages328 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameBodies in Suspense : Time and Affect in Cinema
SubjectFilm / General, Film / History & Criticism
Publication Year2017
TypeTextbook
AuthorAlanna Thain
Subject AreaPerforming Arts
FormatHardcover

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Item Height1.1 in
Item Weight0 Oz
Item Length8.5 in
Item Width5.5 in

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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2016-022219
Reviews"A significant contribution to contemporary cultural theory, to film studies, and to the philosophy of time, Bodies in Suspense connects the cinematic experience of time to its production of the body in a way that no previous theorist has done--by bringing together the study of temporality and affect theory."--Todd McGowan, author of Out of Time: Desire in Atemporal Cinema "Working in the fold between two 'turns' in cinema studies--the 'corporeal turn' and the 'affective turn'--Thain wraps the field around a new concept: 'immediation'. Original, erudite, and conceptually acute, Bodies in Suspense is necessary reading for those interested in film theory, and, more generally, media studies and the philosophy of the image."--Brian Massumi, author of Semblance and Event: Activist Philosophy and the Occurrent Arts
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Table Of ContentContents Introduction: Time Crimes, or Feeling Difference Made 1. A Free Replay: Vertigo and the Spiral of Time 2. Into the Folds: David Lynch's Hollywood Trilogy 3. Suzhou River and the Movement-Vision of Love 4. Time Takings: Suspended Reanimations and the Pulse of Postdigital Cinema Conclusion: Affective Atmospherics and Living Time in Cinema Acknowledgments Notes Index
SynopsisBodies in Suspense presents a powerful new way to think through postdigital cinema and the affective turn in critical theory. According to Alanna Thain, suspense films allow us to experience the relation between two bodies: that of the film and that of the viewer. Through the "time machine" of suspense, film form, gender, genre, and spectatorship are revealed in innovative and different ways. These films not only engage us directly in ethical concerns, but also provide a key for understanding corporeal power in the digital era. Offering a new framework for understanding cinematic suspense, Bodies in Suspense argues that the "body in time" enables us to experience the temporal dimension of the body directly. This is the first book to link two contemporary frames of analysis: questions of cinematic temporality and contemporary affect theory. Thain conducts close readings of influential suspense films by Alfred Hitchcock, David Lynch, Christian Marclay, Rian Johnson, and Lou Ye, and sets forth a compelling new theory of cinema, reading for the productivity of the "crime of time" that stages the duplicity of cinematic bodies. Through these films that foreground doubled characters and looping, Thain explores Gilles Deleuze's claim that "the direct time-image is the phantom which has always haunted cinema." A vital new addition to film theory, corporeality and affect theory, feminist theory, and the philosophy of time--and one of the first books to explore David Lynch's Hollywood trilogy-- Bodies in Suspense asks us to pay attention, above all, to the ways in which the condition of spectatorship creates a doubling sensation with important philosophical repercussions., According to AlannaThain, suspense films allow us to experience the relation between two bodies:that of the film and that of the viewer. Bodies in Suspense presents apowerful new way to think through post-digital cinema and the affective turn incritical theory, arguing that the "body in time" enables us to experience thetemporal dimension of the body directly.
LC Classification NumberPN1995.9.S668T47
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