Description
Book SynopsisHow can cinema make us live time?
Trade Review"A significant contribution to contemporary cultural theory, to film studies, and to the philosophy of time, Bodies in Suspense connects the cinematic experience of time to its production of the body in a way that no previous theorist has done—by bringing together the study of temporality and affect theory."—Todd McGowan, author of Out of Time: Desire in Atemporal Cinema
"Working in the fold between two 'turns' in cinema studies—the ‘corporeal turn’ and the ‘affective turn’—Thain wraps the field around a new concept: ‘immediation’. Original, erudite, and conceptually acute, Bodies in Suspense is necessary reading for those interested in film theory, and, more generally, media studies and the philosophy of the image."—Brian Massumi, author of Semblance and Event: Activist Philosophy and the Occurrent Arts
Table of ContentsContents
Introduction: Time Crimes, or Feeling Difference Made
1. A Free Replay: Vertigo and the Spiral of Time
2. Into the Folds: David Lynch’s Hollywood Trilogy
3. Suzhou River and the Movement-Vision of Love
4. Time Takings: Suspended Reanimations and the Pulse of Postdigital Cinema
Conclusion: Affective Atmospherics and Living Time in Cinema
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
