Cinematic poetics of guilt: audiovisual accusation as a mode of commonality

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 horiz...

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Main Author: Grotkopp, Matthias (Author)
Other Authors: Hendrickson, Daniel 1963- (Translator)
Format: Thesis/Dissertation Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin ; Boston De Gruyter [2021]
Series:Cinepoetics volume 9
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Links:https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110612110
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110612110
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110612110
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110612110
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110612110
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110612110
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110612110
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110612110
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110612110
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110612110
Summary: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
Physical Description:1 Online Ressource (VIII, 255 Seiten)
ISBN:9783110612110
9783110611298
DOI:10.1515/9783110612110

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