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Cinematic Poetics of Guilt

Cinematic Poetics of Guilt Audiovisual Accusation as a Mode of Commonality - Cinepoetics

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How do the temporal and dynamic patterns of media forms and practices create complex constructions of meaning, identity and value? How can we describe the way cinematic images generate and transform the affectively grounded structures that survey, confirm or revise a political community's horizon of values?

Using the exemplary case of feelings of guilt, the author develops an approach that makes patterns of audiovisual compositions intelligible as aesthetic modulations of moral feelings. A sense of guilt is presented here as neither an individualistic psychological emotion nor an external social mechanism of control but as a paradigmatic case for understanding politics and history as based upon embodied affectivity and shared relations to the world.

By taking three distinct examples - German Post-War cinema, Hollywood Western and films on climate change - patterns of audiovisual composition and the inherent calculation of affect are analyzed as practices shaping the conditions of possibility of political communities and their historicity.

Book information

ISBN: 9783110605112
Publisher: De Gruyter
Imprint: De Gruyter
Pub date:
DEWEY: 791.43684
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 265
Weight: 612g
Height: 230mm
Width: 155mm
Spine width: 23mm