Description: Further DetailsTitle: Bodies in SuspenseCondition: NewSubtitle: Time and Affect in CinemaISBN-10: 0816692955EAN: 9780816692958ISBN: 9780816692958Publisher: University of Minnesota PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 03/28/2017Description: Bodies 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.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 216mmItem Length: 140mmItem Width: 38mmAuthor: Alanna ThainGenre: Films & TVRelease Year: 2017 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Bodies in Suspense
Title: Bodies in Suspense
Subtitle: Time and Affect in Cinema
ISBN-10: 0816692955
EAN: 9780816692958
ISBN: 9780816692958
Release Date: 03/28/2017
Release Year: 2017
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Films & TV
Number of Pages: 328 Pages
Publication Name: Bodies in Suspense : Time and Affect in Cinema
Language: English
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Subject: Film / General, Film / History & Criticism
Item Height: 1.5 in
Publication Year: 2017
Item Weight: 15.9 Oz
Type: Textbook
Item Length: 8.5 in
Author: Alanna Thain
Subject Area: Performing Arts
Item Width: 5.5 in
Format: Trade Paperback
