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Record Nr.

UNINA9910962006403321

Autore

Powell Anna

Titolo

Deleuze, altered states and film / / Anna Powell

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Edinburgh, : Edinburgh University Press, c2007

ISBN

0-7486-5113-6

0748632824 (hbk.) :

9780748632824 (hbk.) :

1-281-25203-4

9786611252038

0-7486-3240-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

vii, 211 p. ; ; 24 cm

Disciplina

791.43684

Soggetti

Altered states of consciousness in motion pictures

Altered states of consciousness

Motion pictures - Philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [189]-199) and index.

Nota di contenuto

COPYRIGHT; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Altered States, Affect and Film; CHAPTER 1 The Dream Machine; CHAPTER 2 Pharmacoanalysis; CHAPTER 3 Altered Body Maps and the Cinematic Sensorium; CHAPTER 4 Altered States of Time; Conclusion: Becoming-Fractal; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Deleuze, Altered States and Film offers a typology of altered states, defining dream, hallucination, memory, trance and ecstasy in their cinematic expression. The book presents altered states films as significant neurological, psychological and philosophical experiences. Chapters engage with films that simultaneously present and induce altered consciousness. They consider dream states and the popularisation of alterity in drugs films. The altered bodies of erotic arousal and trance states are explored, using haptics and synaesthesia. Cinematic distortions of space and time as well as new digit