Mediated Associations

Cinematic Dimensions of Social Theory

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de Daniel O'Connor

Type

Studies

Sujet

Sociology

Mots Clés

sociology

Année d'édition

2004

Editeur

McGill-Queen's University Press

Langue

anglais

Taille du livre

Format

Paperback • 218 pages
6 x 9 inches (15 x 23 cm)

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ISBN-13

0-7735-2549-1
978-0-7735-2549-8

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Description de l'ouvrage:
An insightful examination of cinema's social character and how it shapes our associations with others.

Mediated Associations builds upon current debates over the relationship between society and the cinema, and extends the critical dialogue that has been emerging between cinematic concepts and methods of social analysis. Drawing from a broad range of philosophical, sociological, cultural, media, and cinema theorists, Daniel O'Connor develops a unique conception of the power of cinematic apparatuses. He expands our understanding of how cinema effectively resonates with its viewers and draws our attention to the constitution and control of aesthetic-cinematic communities.

Rather than focusing on the abstract and individualizing character of cinema, Mediated Associations elucidates the collective character of cinematic objects. O'Connor argues that social theory must come to terms with the new mobilities and speed of cinema, and the various ways in which the affect - as a virtual moment of collective experience - is inserted into the flow of movement and structures cinematic events. In considering the primacy of the affect to cinematic forms of power, he examines the way in which cinema controls our associations, reconstituting our manners and habits of sociality and sociability in subtle and complex ways.

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