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Cinema is an affective medium. Films move us to feel wonder, joy, and love as well as fear, anger, and hatred. Today, we are living through a new age of sensibility when emotion is given priority over reason. Yet, there is a counter-cultural current in contemporary American cinema that offers a more nuanced treatment of emotion. Both aesthetically and eidetically, this new cinema of affect allows viewers to make up their own minds about what they feel and think.
This book focuses on key films by important auteur-directors--David Fincher, Bryan Singer, Christopher Nolan, Kathryn Bigelow, Richard Linklater, Barry Jenkins, Greta Gerwig, and Pete Docter--who are to the forefront of this new cinema. It explores how they anatomize affect and how it functions in the creation or degradation of character and society.
Contents
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Affective Turn in American Cinema
1. David Fincher's Feelings: From Apathy to Zest
2. Bryan Singer's Strange Cinema of Freaks and Outsiders
3. Christopher Nolan: Mastering Fear, Rage and Death
4. Kathryn Bigelow and the War on Terror
5. Richard Linklater, Barry Jenkins, Greta Gerwig: Cinematic Coming-of-Age Narratives
Epilogue: Inside Out: A Major (E)motion Picture
Filmography (by Director)
Chapter Notes
Bibliography
Index
