{"product_id":"affect-poetics-of-the-new-hollywood-suspense-paranoia-and-melancholy-9783110579604","title":"Affect Poetics of the New Hollywood: Suspense, Paranoia, and Melancholy","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e How is affective experience produced in the cinema? And how can we write a history of this experience? By asking these questions, this study by Hauke Lehmann aims at rethinking our conception of a critical period in US film history – the New Hollywood: as a moment of crisis that can neither be reduced to economic processes of adaption nor to a collection of masterpieces. Rather, the fine-grained analysis of core films reveals the power of cinematic images to affect their audiences – to confront them with the new. The films of the New Hollywood redefine the divisions of the classical genre system in a radical way and thereby transform the way spectators are addressed affectively in the cinema. The study describes a complex interplay between three modes of affectivity: suspense, paranoia, and melancholy. All three, each in their own way, implicate spectators in the deep-seated contradictions of their own feelings and their ways of being in the world: their relations to history, to society, and to cultural fantasy. On this basis, \u003cem\u003eAffect Poetics of the New Hollywood\u003c\/em\u003e projects an original conception of film history: as an affective history which can be re-written up to the present day. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"De Gruyter","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53516570460503,"sku":"9783110579604","price":81.22,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/affect-poetics-of-the-new-hollywood-suspense-paranoia-and-melancholy-9783110579604","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}