Affect Poetics of the New Hollywood : : Suspense, Paranoia, and Melancholy / / Hauke Lehmann.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package English 2020
• VerfasserIn: Lehmann, Hauke,
• MitwirkendeR: Lattimer, James,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2019]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Cinepoetics – English edition , 7
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (VIII, 276 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Splitting the Spectator -- 2 Suspense: Forms of Cinematic Thinking -- 3 Paranoia: Forms of Mediatization -- 4 Melancholy: Ways of Perceiving History -- 5 A History of Feeling -- List of figures -- Bibliography -- Subject index -- Name index