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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 |
This text offers a typology of altered states, defining dream hallucination, memory, trance and ecstasy in their cinematic expression. It presents altered states films as significant neurological, psychological and philosophical experiences |
| Bibliography |
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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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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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Motion pictures.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
0748632409 (electronic bk.) |
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1281252034 |
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9780748632404 (electronic bk.) |
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9781281252036 |
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(Cloth) |
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