Affect Poetics of the New Hollywood

Suspense, Paranoia, and Melancholy

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de Hauke Lehmann

Type

Essays

Sujet

Countries > United States

Mots Clés

New Hollywood, theory

Année d'édition

2022

Editeur

De Gruyter

Collection

Cinepoetics

1ere édition

2019

Langue

anglais

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Format

Paperback • 284 pages
6 x 9 ¼ inches (15.5 x 23.5 cm)

ISBN

978-3-11-077681-2

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Description de l'ouvrage:
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.

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