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1 online resource (vii, 211 pages) |
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Acknowledgements -- INTRODUCTION: ALTERED STATES, AFFECT AND FILM. Mixed planes and singular encounters: methods -- Critical contexts -- Altered states: menu. -- THE DREAM MACHINE. Spellbound -- Schizoanalysis, becoming and film -- Dreams in Anti-Oedipus -- Deleuze Bergson and dreams -- Ultra-confusional activity: dreams and Un chien andalou -- The dreamer entranced: meshes of the afternoon -- Waking dreams: Fire walk with me -- Fire walk with me -- Worlds out of frame -- Beyond the flashback: recollections, dreams and thoughts -- From dream-image to implied dream: the cinema of enchantment and The tales of Hoffmann. -- PHARMACOANALYSIS. Altered states: the return of the repressed -- Casteneda and becoming-primitive -- Creative (d)evolution -- Becoming anti-matter -- Tuning in, turning on, dropping out: The trip and Easy rider -- The camera as drug: Easy rider -- The breakdown: Trainspotting and Requiem for a dream -- Black holes and lines of death: Requiem for a dream -- Counter-actualisation: two kinds of death -- Inauguration of the pleasure dome: narcotic multiplicity -- Dancing in the light: ecstasy in Human traffic -- Conclusions: pharmacoanalysis and the great health. -- ALTERED BODY MAPS AND THE CINEMATIC SENSORIUM. Sensational cinema -- Images of sensation -- Stan Brakhage and the art of vision -- Dog star man: connection to the cosmos -- Flicker -- The flicker: stroboscopic film -- Yantra and lapis: analogue trance -- Sensational sex -- Fuses -- Performance: erotic home movie -- Strange days: sex in the head. -- ALTERED STATES OF TIME. Sculpting in time: Deleuze, Tarkovsky and Stalker -- Bergson's time: movement and duration -- Deleuze's time-image -- Entrancing time: the crystal-image and altered states in Heart of glass -- The crystal-image -- Agitation of the mind -- Crystal and cloud -- Liquid crystal: Stalker -- Donnie Darko: incompossible worlds -- Deflecting time's arrow -- 2001: a time odyssey -- A prehistory of consciousness -- Jupiter and beyond the infinite -- Insert: the abstract time-image -- Time in a room. -- CONCLUSION: BECOMING-FRACTAL. Virtual states/actual implications -- Forms of thought or creation. -- BIBLIOGRAPHY. Works cited -- Electronic resources -- Filmography. -- Index |
| Summary |
Deleuze, Altered States and Film offers a typology of altered states, defining dream, hallucination, memory, trance and ecstasy in their cinematic expression. The book presents altered states films as significant neurological, psychological and philosophical experiences. Chapters engage with films that simultaneously present and induce altered consciousness. They consider dream states and the popularisation of alterity in drugs films. The altered bodies of erotic arousal and trance states are explored, using haptics and synaesthesia. Cinematic distortions of space and time as well as new digital and fractal directions are opened up. Anna Powell's distinctive re-mapping of the film experience as altered state uses a Deleuzian approach to explore how cinema alters us by 'affective contamination'. Arguing that specific cinematic techniques derange the senses and the mind, she makes an assemblage of philosophy and art, counter-cultural writers and filmmakers to provide insights into the cinematic event as intoxication. The book applies Deleuze, alone and with Guattari, to mainstream films like Donnie Darko as well as arthouse and experimental cinema. Offering innovative readings of 'classic' altered states movies such as 2001, Performance and Easy Rider, it includes 'avant-garde' and 'underground' work. Powell asserts the Deleuzian approach as itself a kind of altered state that explodes habitual ways of thinking and feeling |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-199) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Deleuze, Gilles, 1925-1995 -- Criticism and interpretation
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Deleuze, Gilles, 1925-1995 fast |
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Altered states of consciousness -- Motion pictures
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Altered states of consciousness.
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Motion pictures -- Philosophy
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- Reference.
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- General.
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Altered states of consciousness
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Motion pictures -- Philosophy
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Electronic books
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Motion pictures
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780748632404 |
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0748632409 |
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1281252034 |
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9781281252036 |
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