Pulse in Cinema
The Aesthetics of Horror
1st Edition
Published on 13. November 2020
232 pages
978-1-4744-7586-0 (ISBN)
Description
When we think of the pulse in cinema, we may think of the heartbeat of the spectator as they respond to affective or moving scenes in the film, or how fast-paced and shocking images exacerbate this affective response. Conceptually extending cinema spectatorship, The Pulse in Cinema contends that cinema is an energetic arrangement of affective and intense forces, where the image and the spectator are specific components. Analysing body horror films such as The Tingler (1959), Dawn of the Dead (1978) and The Beyond (1981), this book builds on Lyotard's concept of the dispositif, Deleuze's work on sensation and Bataille's economic theory to conceptualise a pulse in cinema, arguing for its importance in cinema spectatorship theory.
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Content
- Intro
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Rosalind E. Krauss's Theory of the Pulse
- Rhythm and Pulse
- The Pulse: A Philosophical Enquiry
- Body Horror
- 1. The Rhythm of Life: The Pulse in the Image
- Rhythm and Pulse
- Rhythm in Experimental Cinema
- Protocinema: Étienne-Jules Marey
- The Pulse in Psychoanalysis: Sigmund Freud
- 2. The Rhythm of Life: The Pulse in the Spectator
- Surfaces of Inscription and Passages of Intensity
- Movement, and an Opening
- The Logic of Sensation as a Diastolic-Systolic Opening
- The Aesthetics of the Open: Georges Franju's Le Sang des bêtes/Blood of the Beasts (1949)
- A Libidinal Economy, and an Opening
- Candour as the Body's Openness to an Outside
- 3. Aisthesis and Dispositif: The Pulse and Its Analogues
- Extracting the Fear that Tingles the Spine: The Hype, the Buzz of the Gimmick, and the Bottom Line
- The Execution: The Tingler (1959)
- Aisthesis and Prescribed Lines
- Prescription and the Aesthetics of Blood Spilled
- The Pulse 'Exposed'
- Dispositif: Lines of Fright
- Figural Analogues or 'a Metonymy Without End': The Heart that Throbs, the Spine that Tingles, the Mouth that Screams. Do you have the Guts?
- 4. Automutilation and Metonymy: The Economy of the Pulse
- General Economy as Energetic Expenditure
- Two General Economies of Communication and Communion
- Automutilation and George A. Romero's Dawn of the Dead (1978)
- An Operation in the Morgue: Lucio Fulci's L'aldilà/The Beyond (1981)
- The Sovereign Operation as Affective Experience
- The Pulse as a Sovereign Operation in Horror Cinema
- 5. Blood and Convulsive Affect: Vectors of the Pulse as Sovereign Operations
- Andrzej Zulawski's Possession (1981)
- Possession and Dispossession
- Body Horror and Convulsive Affect
- The Copula and the Copulation of Bodies: The Convulsions of Language and Self, Even (Fucking Language)
- The Movement-Image and Vectors of Sensation
- The Machinic and the Non-Machinic
- The Vector and Communication
- The Magnitude and Direction of Vectors that Result in Possession and Dispossession
- Material Vectors and their (Non)sense
- Bibliography
- Filmography
- Index
