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1 online resource (vii, 232 pages) |
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A Deleuzian slant on horror -- Structure and rationale -- Psychoanalysis and horror -- Schizoanalysis : pure naked intensity -- Schizoanalysis, art, horror -- Psycho as schizo -- The mise-en-scène of madeness : The cabinet of Dr. Caligari -- "Man is not truly one, but truly two" : the schizoid screen in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde -- "Schizoid misery and glory" : feeling repulsion -- The brain as mise-en-scène : The shining -- Place, time, and motion -- The schizoid maching : imaginary friends -- "Trapped in a world of ghosts" : intensive states in Natural born killers -- Natural born predators -- Becoming-schizo -- Back-projections and other anomalies -- Body-horror, masochism, and film studies -- Becoming anomalous -- Becoming-indeterminate : Cat people -- Becoming-woman -- Sharing species : Alien resurrection -- Ripley and her relatives -- The bodies-without-organs of horror -- Uncontrollable flesh : Videodrome -- Frank pulls himself together : Hellraiser -- Becoming-invisible : The hollow man -- Machinic desire : becoming-human in Demon seed -- Heavy metal meets the soft machine : Hardware -- Freddy Krueger : shape-shifter extraordinaire -- Sensation and perception : the aesthetics of affect -- Bergson's movement-image in Deleuze -- Moving images -- The infinate spirit of evil : the forces of light and darkness in Nosferatu -- Into the black hole -- Forces in combat -- In a glass darkly : lyrical abstraction and molecularity in Vampyr -- Sensory anomalies and intensive space -- Sensational colour : spectral horror -- Death by colour : The masque of the red death -- Dressed to express : colour and costume in The vampire lovers -- Tactisigns of terror : Suspiria -- The face of horror : the intensive affection-image in Les yeux sans visage -- Bergson's time : movement and duration -- Deleuze's time-image -- Time and motion -- Duration and entrapment in the Gothic haunted house : The haunting -- Haunted cinematography and mise-en-scène -- Death by flashback : Jacob's ladder -- Incompossible worlds -- "They're coming out of the walls" -- Back from the black hole : Event horizon -- Inner space in outer space : travels in duration -- "It's alive" : the Event horizon as demonic machine -- Dreaming duration in Mulholland Drive -- Betty's "dream place" -- Diane in duration -- Space-time and dream duration -- Living horror : thoughts on our nerve-endings |
| Summary |
The horror film analysed from a Deleuzian perspective. This book argues that dominant psychoanalytic approaches to horror films neglect the aesthetics of horror. Yet cinematic devices such as mise en sc÷ne, editing and sound, are central to the viewer's visceral fear and arousal. Using Deleuze's work on art and film, Anna Powell argues that film viewing is a form of 'altered consciousness' and the experience of viewing horror film an 'embodied event'. The book begins with a critical introduction to the key terms in Deleuzian philosophy and aesthetics. These include: subjectivity/becoming, the body without organs, molecularity, time/duration, affect, movement/rhythm, space, anomaly and schizoanalysis. These concepts are then applied to horror films. Themes such as insanity, sensory response to film, the subject/object, fractured time, the body and cinematography are explored in horror films such as Jacob's Ladder, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Psycho, Silence of the Lambs, The Fly, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Alien Resurrection, The Others, The Shining, Interview with the Vampire, Bram Stoker's Dracula and Nosferatu. Features*A substantial new contribution to horror film theory*A critical introduction to key terms in Deleuzian philosophy and aesthetics *New readings of the classic horror canon and recent films*Analysis of horror styles, narrative and special effects. Deleuze and Horror Film was originally published in hardback in March 2005. The paperback edition was published in November 2006 |
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Includes filmography: pages 223-224 |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 216-222) and index |
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Deleuze, Gilles -- Criticism and interpretation
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Deleuze, Gilles, 1925-1995 fast |
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Deleuze, Gilles. swd |
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Horror films -- History and criticism
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- General.
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Horror films
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Horrorfilm
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Griezelfilms.
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Horror films
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Horror films.
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Horror films.
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Films d'horreur.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780748628780 |
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0748628789 |
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0748651063 |
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9780748651061 |
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128015425X |
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9781280154256 |
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9781474471732 |
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1474471730 |
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