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The Matrix of Visual Culture

Working with Deleuze in Film Theory

By: Patricia Pisters

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The Matrix of Visual Culture

Working with Deleuze in Film Theory

By: Patricia Pisters

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.

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Stanford University Press

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0804740283

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New Blood in Contemporary Cinema

Women Directors and the Poetics of Horror

By: Pisters Patricia Pisters

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New Blood in Contemporary Cinema

Women Directors and the Poetics of Horror

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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.

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Edinburgh University Press

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1474466982

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The Neuro-Image

A Deleuzian Film-Philosophy of Digital Screen Culture

By: Patricia Pisters

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The Neuro-Image

A Deleuzian Film-Philosophy of Digital Screen Culture

By: Patricia Pisters

Arguing that today's viewers move through a character's brain instead of looking through his or her eyes or mental landscape, this book approaches twenty-first-century globalized cinema through the concept of the "neuro-image." Pisters explains why this concept has emerged now, and she elaborates its threefold nature through research from three domains—Deleuzian (schizoanalytic) philosophy, digital networked screen culture, and neuroscientific research. These domains return in the book's tripartite structure. Part One, on the brain as "neuroscreen," suggests rich connections between film theory, mental illness, and cognitive neuroscience. Part Two explores neuro-images from a philosophical perspective, paying close attention to their ontological, epistemological, and aesthetic dimensions. Political and ethical aspects of the neuro-image are discussed in Part Three. Topics covered along the way include the omnipresence of surveillance, the blurring of the false and the real and the affective powers of the neo-baroque, and the use of neuro-images in politics, historical memory, and war.

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Stanford University Press

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0804782849

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New Blood in Contemporary Cinema

Women Directors and the Poetics of Horror

By: Patricia Pisters

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Women Directors and the Poetics of Horror

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The book investigates contemporary women directors who put 'a poetics of horror' to new use in their work, expanding the range of gendered and racialized perspectives in the horror genre.

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The Matrix of Visual Culture

Working with Deleuze in Film Theory

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The Matrix of Visual Culture

The Matrix of Visual Culture

New Blood in Contemporary Cinema

New Blood in Contemporary Cinema

The Neuro-Image

The Neuro-Image

New Blood in Contemporary Cinema

New Blood in Contemporary Cinema

The Matrix of Visual Culture

The Matrix of Visual Culture

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