Deleuze and Horror Film

Deleuze and Horror Film
Author: Anna Powell
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2005-03-24
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0748628789

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.

Horror Film and Affect

Horror Film and Affect
Author: Xavier Aldana Reyes
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 221
Release: 2016-02-12
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1317748794

This book brings together various theoretical approaches to Horror that have received consistent academic attention since the 1990s – abjection, disgust, cognition, phenomenology, pain studies – to make a significant contribution to the study of fictional moving images of mutilation and the ways in which human bodies are affected by those on the screen on three levels: representationally, emotionally and somatically. Aldana Reyes reads Horror viewership as eminently carnal, and seeks to articulate the need for an alternative model that understands the experience of feeling under corporeal threat as the genre’s main descriptor. Using recent, post-millennial examples throughout, the book also offers case studies of key films such as Hostel, [REC], Martyrs or Ginger Snaps, and considers contemporary Horror strands such as found footage or 3D Horror.

The Matrix of Visual Culture

The Matrix of Visual Culture
Author: Patricia Pisters
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Total Pages: 317
Release: 2003
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0804740283

This book explores Gilles Deleuze's contribution to film theory. According to Deleuze, we have come to live in a universe that could be described as metacinematic. His conception of images implies a new kind of camera consciousness, one that determines our perceptions and sense of selves: aspects of our subjectivities are formed in, for instance, action-images, affection-images and time-images. We live in a matrix of visual culture that is always moving and changing. Each image is always connected to an assemblage of affects and forces. This book presents a model, as well as many concrete examples, of how to work with Deleuze in film theory. It asks questions about the universe as metacinema, subjectivity, violence, feminism, monstrosity, and music. Among the contemporary films it discusses within a Deleuzian framework are Strange Days, Fight Club, and Dancer in the Dark.

New Blood in Contemporary Cinema

New Blood in Contemporary Cinema
Author: Pisters Patricia Pisters
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages: 349
Release: 2020-08-18
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1474466982

Since the turn of the millennium, a growing number of female filmmakers have appropriated the aesthetics of horror for their films. In this book, Patricia Pisters investigates contemporary women directors such as Ngozi Onwurah, Claire Denis, Lucile Hadzihalilovic and Ana Lily Amirpour, who put 'a poetics of horror' to new use in their work, expanding the range of gendered and racialised perspectives in the horror genre. Exploring themes such as rage, trauma, sexuality, family ties and politics, New Blood in Contemporary Cinema takes on avenging women, bloody vampires, lustful witches, scary mothers, terrifying offspring and female Frankensteins. By following a red trail of blood, the book illuminates a new generation of women directors who have enlarged the general scope and stretched the emotional spectrum of the genre.

Deleuze and the Schizoanalysis of Cinema

Deleuze and the Schizoanalysis of Cinema
Author: Ian Buchanan
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 172
Release: 2008-10-15
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1847061281

A hugely important collection of essays on Deleuze and Cinema from an international panel of experts.

Cinema: The time-image

Cinema: The time-image
Author: Gilles Deleuze
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Total Pages: 366
Release: 1986
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9780816616770

Discusses the theoretical implications of the cinematographic image based on Henri Bergson's theories

European Nightmares

European Nightmares
Author: Patricia Allmer
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 429
Release: 2012-05-29
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0231850085

This volume is the first edited collection of essays focusing on European horror cinema from 1945 to the present. It features new contributions by distinguished international scholars exploring British, French, Spanish, Italian, German and Northern European and Eastern European horror cinema. The essays employ a variety of current critical methods of analysis, ranging from psychoanalysis and Deleuzean film theory to reception theory and historical analysis. The complete volume offers a major resource on post-war European horror cinema, with in-depth studies of such classic films as Seytan (Turkey, 1974), Suspiria (Italy, 1977), Switchblade Romance (France, 2003), and Taxidermia (Hungary, 2006).

Deleuze and Cinema

Deleuze and Cinema
Author: Felicity Colman
Publisher: Berg
Total Pages: 392
Release: 2011-06-01
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1847887708

Gilles Deleuze published two radical books on film: Cinema 1: The Movement-Image and Cinema 2: The Time-Image. Engaging with a wide range of film styles, histories and theories, Deleuze's writings treat film as a new form of philosophy. This ciné-philosophy offers a startling new way of understanding the complexities of the moving image, its technical concerns and constraints as well as its psychological and political outcomes. Deleuze and Cinema presents a step-by-step guide to the key concepts behind Deleuze's revolutionary theory of the cinema. Exploring ideas through key directors and genres, Deleuze's method is illustrated with examples drawn from American, British, continental European, Russian and Asian cinema. Deleuze and Cinema provides the first introductory guide to Deleuze's radical methodology for screen analysis. It will be invaluable for students and teachers of Film, Media and Philosophy.

Affective Intensities and Evolving Horror Forms

Affective Intensities and Evolving Horror Forms
Author: Daniel Adam Daniel
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2020-02-03
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1474456383

Horror cinema is a genre that is undergoing constant evolution, from the sub-genre of 'found footage,' to post-cinematic new media forms such as Youtube horror, horror video games and cinematic virtual reality horror. By investigating how these new forms alter the dynamics of spectatorship, this book charts how cinema's affective capacities have shifted in relation to these modifications in the forms of cinematic horror. It applies a rich theoretical synthesis of phenomenological and Deleuzian approaches to a number of case studies, including films like The Blair Witch Project, Paranormal Activity and Creep as well as video games such as Alien: Isolation and new media forms such as Youtube horror and virtual reality horror.

Japanese Horror Cinema and Deleuze

Japanese Horror Cinema and Deleuze
Author: Rachel Elizabeth Barraclough
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 399
Release: 2022-01-13
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1501368303

Using theories of national, transnational and world cinema, and genre theories and psychoanalysis as the basis of its argument, Japanese Horror Cinema and Deleuze argues that these understandings of Japanese horror films can be extended in new ways through the philosophy of Deleuze. In particular, the complexities and nuances of how films like Ju-On: The Grudge (2002), Audition (1999) and Kairo (2001) (and beyond) form dynamic, transformative global networks between industries, directors and audiences can be considered. Furthermore, understandings of how key horror tropes and motifs apply to these films (and others more broadly), such as the idea of the “monstrous-feminine”, can be transformed, allowing these models to become more flexible.