Deleuze and the cinemas of performance [[electronic resource] ] : powers of affection / / Elena del Río

• Autore: Río Elena del
• Pubblicazione: Edinburgh, : Edinburgh University Press, c2008
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (249 p.)
• Disciplina: 791.4301
• Soggetto topico: Human body in motion pictures; Motion pictures - Philosophy
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 218-227) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: COVER; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Cinema and the Affective-Performative; 1. Animated Fetishes; 2. Choreographies of Affect; 3. Dancing Feminisms; 4. Kinesthetic Seductions; 5. Powers of the False; Conclusion: Everything is ""Yes""; Works Cited; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This book offers a unique reconsideration of the performing body that privileges the notion of affective force over the notion of visual form at the centre of former theories of spectacle and performativity. Drawing on Gilles Deleuze's philosophy of the body, and on Deleuze-Spinoza's relevant concepts of affect and expression, Elena del Río examines a kind of cinema that she calls 'affective-performative'. The features of this cinema unfold via detailed and engaging discussions of the movements, gestures and speeds of the body in a variety of films by Douglas Sirk, Rainer W. Fassbinder, Sally
• Titolo autorizzato: Deleuze and the cinemas of performance
• ISBN: 0-7486-5114-4; 1-281-78589-X; 9786611785895; 0-7486-3526-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910782245803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II