Affect Poetics of the New Hollywood: Suspense, Paranoia, and Melancholy

by Hauke and Lehmann

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3110776812
• ISBN13: 9783110776812
• Release Date: January 2022
• Publisher: de Gruyter
• Length: 284 Pages
• Weight: 0.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"