Unbecoming Cinema Unsettling Encounters With Ethical Event Films

Unbecoming Cinema constitutes a welcome addition to texts that provide a film-philosophical perspective on films that otherwise take on and involve difficult subject matter, including in this case suicide, autistic worldviews, hallucinatory aesthetics and vomit-gore. The book in effect argues succes...

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Main Author Fleming, David H
Format eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bristol Intellect 28.04.2017
Intellect Ltd
Intellect Books Ltd
Edition1
Subjects
Alejandro Jodorowsky
Autism
Communication Studies
Films, cinema
Gilles Deleuze
Language Arts & Disciplines
Media and Communications
Performing Arts
Sensationalism in motion pictures
Suicide
The Arts
Vomiting
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 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 Parallels -- Chapter Four: That's 'Really' Sick: Pervert Horror, Torture Porn(ology), Bad-Taste and Emetic Affect in Lucifer Valentine's Unbecoming 'Cinema of Repulsions' -- Exits -- Works Cited -- Index -- Back Cover