Overview
According to AlannaThain, suspense films allow us to experience the relation between two bodies:that of the film and that of the viewer. Bodies in Suspense presents apowerful new way to think through post-digital cinema and the affective turn incritical theory, arguing that the ""body in time"" enables us to experience thetemporal dimension of the body directly.
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Author: Alanna Thain
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Imprint: University of Minnesota Press
Dimensions:
Width: 14.00cm
, Height: 3.80cm
, Length: 21.60cm
Weight: 0.408kg
ISBN: 9780816692958
ISBN 10: 0816692955
Pages: 328
Publication Date: 28 March 2017
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Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
A significant contribution to contemporary cultural theory, to film studies, and to the philosophy of time, Bodies in Suspense connects the cinematic experience of time to its production of the body in a way that no previous theorist has done-by bringing together the study of temporality and affect theory.-Todd McGowan, author of Out of Time: Desire in Atemporal Cinema Working in the fold between two 'turns' in cinema studies-the corporeal turn and the affective turn-Thain wraps the field around a new concept: immediation. Original, erudite, and conceptually acute, Bodies in Suspense is necessary reading for those interested in film theory, and, more generally, media studies and the philosophy of the image. -Brian Massumi, author of Semblance and Event: Activist Philosophy and the Occurrent Arts
A significant contribution to contemporary cultural theory, to film studies, and to the philosophy of time, Bodies in Suspense connects the cinematic experience of time to its production of the body in a way that no previous theorist has done--by bringing together the study of temporality and affect theory. --Todd McGowan, author of Out of Time: Desire in Atemporal Cinema Working in the fold between two 'turns' in cinema studies--the 'corporeal turn' and the 'affective turn'--Thain wraps the field around a new concept: 'immediation'. Original, erudite, and conceptually acute, Bodies in Suspense is necessary reading for those interested in film theory, and, more generally, media studies and the philosophy of the image. --Brian Massumi, author of Semblance and Event: Activist Philosophy and the Occurrent Arts
A significant contribution to contemporary cultural theory, to film studies, and to the philosophy of time, <i>Bodies in Suspense</i> connects the cinematic experience of time to its production of the body in a way that no previous theorist has done--by bringing together the study of temporality and affect theory. --Todd McGowan, author of <i>Out of Time: Desire in Atemporal Cinema</i></p> Working in the fold between two 'turns' in cinema studies--the 'corporeal turn' and the 'affective turn'--Thain wraps the field around a new concept: 'immediation'. Original, erudite, and conceptually acute, <i>Bodies in Suspense</i> is necessary reading for those interested in film theory, and, more generally, media studies and the philosophy of the image. --Brian Massumi, author of <i>Semblance and Event: Activist Philosophy and the Occurrent Arts</i></p>
Author Information
Alanna Thain is associate professor of English and world cinemas, and director of the Institute for Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies at McGill University.
