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Deleuze and Horror Film


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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, A

About the Author:
Anna Powell is Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at the Manchester Metropolitan University


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780748651061
  • Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Edinburgh University Press
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0748651063
  • Publisher Date: 01 Mar 2012
  • Binding: Digital online
  • Returnable: Y


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