Unbecoming cinema : unsettling encounters with ethical event films

• Tác giả: David H Fleming
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN-10: 1783207752
• ISBN-13: 978-1783207756
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 791.43653 Motion pictures, radio, television
• Mô tả vật lý: 214 pages ; , 24 c
• Bộ sưu tập: Kiến trúc, nghệ thuật, hội họa
• ID: 280963
• Chủ đề: 1. Experimental films--History and criticism; 2. Experimental films; 3. Motion pictures--Moral and ethical aspects; 4. Motion pictures--Moral and ethical aspects; 5. Motion pictures--Psychological aspects; 6. Motion pictures--Psychological aspects; 7. Sensationalism in motion pictures; 8. Sensationalism in motion pictures; 9. Taboo in motion pictures; 10. Taboo in motion pictures

Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-205) and index

Tóm tắt

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