Full Description
Unbecoming Cinema explores the notion of cinema as a living, active agent, capable of unsettling and reconfiguring a person's thoughts, senses, and ethics. Film, according to David H. Fleming, is a dynamic force, arming audiences with the ability to see and make a difference in the world. Drawing heavily on Deleuze's philosophical insights, as well as those of Guattari and Badiou, the book critically examines unsettling and taboo footage, from suicide documentaries to art therapy films, from portrayals of mental health and autism to torture porn. In investigating the effect of film on the mind and body, Fleming's shrewd analysis unites transgressive cinema with metaphysical concepts of the body and mind.
A PDF version of this book is available for free in open access via the OAPEN Library platform, Unbecoming Cinema. It has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License and is part of Knowledge Unlatched.
Contents
Introduction: On Ethics and Eventual Encounters
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Part I: Exposing and Revealing
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Death 24X A Haecceity: Or Deleuze, Life and the Ethico-Aesthetics of Documenting Suicide in (and off) The Bridge
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Cinema and/as Autism: Dis-ordering Movements from the Intellect to Intuition, Ego to the Eco, and 'Pre-chunked' Perception to In-forming Haecceitic 'Shapes' (via Deligny and Guattari)
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Part II: Distorting and Perverting
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Head Cinema as Body without Organs: On Jodorowsky's Bitter Pill Films and Their Spinozian Parallels
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That's 'Really' Sick: Pervert Horror, Torture Porn(ology), Bad-Taste and Emetic Affect in Lucifer Valentines "Unbecoming 'Cinema of Repulsions'
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