Affect Poetics of the New Hollywood

Suspense, Paranoia, and Melancholy

Hauke Lehmann (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

VIII, 276 Seiten

2022
De Gruyter (Verlag)
978-3-11-077681-2 (ISBN)

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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, Affect Poetics of the New Hollywood projects an original conception of film history: as an affective history which can be re-written up to the present day.

lt;p> Hauke Lehmann, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

Erscheinungsdatum	22.01.2022
Reihe/Serie	Cinepoetics – English edition ; 7
Übersetzer	James Lattimer
Zusatzinfo	75 b/w and 10 col. ill.
Verlagsort	Berlin/Boston
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 230 mm
Gewicht	578 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
Schlagworte	Aesthetic Experience • American film history • Cinematic affect • cinematic temporality
ISBN-10	3-11-077681-2 / 3110776812
ISBN-13	978-3-11-077681-2 / 9783110776812
Zustand	Neuware