Untertitel:
Suspense, Paranoia, and Melancholy
Verlag:
DE GRUYTER
Erschienen:
02.12.2019
Seitenanzahl:
284
EAN:
9783110580761
Sprache:
Englisch
Format:
PDF
Schutz:
Adobe-DRM

Affect Poetics of the New Hollywood

Hauke Lehmann


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<p> How is affective experience produced in the cinema? And how can we write a history of this experience? By asking these questions, this study by Hauke Lehmann aims at rethinking our conception of a critical period in US film history – the New Hollywood: as a moment of crisis that can neither be reduced to economic processes of adaption nor to a collection of masterpieces. Rather, the fine-grained analysis of core films reveals the power of cinematic images to affect their audiences – to confront them with the new. The films of the New Hollywood redefine the divisions of the classical genre system in a radical way and thereby transform the way spectators are addressed affectively in the cinema. The study describes a complex interplay between three modes of affectivity: suspense, paranoia, and melancholy. All three, each in their own way, implicate spectators in the deep-seated contradictions of their own feelings and their ways of being in the world: their relations to history, to society, and to cultural fantasy. On this basis, <em>Affect Poetics of the New Hollywood</em> projects an original conception of film history: as an affective history which can be re-written up to the present day. </p>

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