Deleuze and the cinemas of performance: powers of affection
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Main Author: Río, Elena del (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press c2008
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Online Access:DE-1046
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (p. [218]-227) and index
COVER; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Cinema and the Affective-Performative; 1. Animated Fetishes; 2. Choreographies of Affect; 3. Dancing Feminisms; 4. Kinesthetic Seductions; 5. Powers of the False; Conclusion: Everything is "Yes"; Works Cited; Index
This book offers a unique reconsideration of the performing body that privileges the notion of affective force over the notion of visual form at the centre of former theories of spectacle and performativity. Drawing on Gilles Deleuze's philosophy of the body, and on Deleuze-Spinoza's relevant concepts of affect and expression, Elena del Río examines a kind of cinema that she calls 'affective-performative'. The features of this cinema unfold via detailed and engaging discussions of the movements, gestures and speeds of the body in a variety of films by Douglas Sirk, Rainer W. Fassbinder, Sally
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (viii, 240 p.)
ISBN:0748635262
9780748635269

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