The forms of the affects / Eugenie Brinkema
- Author
- Brinkema, Eugenie, 1980-
- Published
- Durham ; London : Duke University Press, 2014.
- Physical Description
- xvi, 347 pages, 3 pages of colored plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
- Contents
- Ten points to begin -- A tear that does not drop, but folds -- Crying is structured like a language -- Tears without bodies -- Film theory's absent center -- Emotion, feeling, excess, affect -- Affective fallacies -- Reading for affect -- Mise-n'en-scene: formalism after presence -- Interval: solitude -- The illumination of light -- Visible darkness: optics according to Augustine -- Light, the peculiar -- Ongoing dialogues with loss -- Grief without sublation -- Grief and the undialectical image -- Ma mort indialectique -- Extra missing things -- Acedia and the Pose -- Where being would have been -- A still and heavy pain -- Aesthetic exclusions and the worse than the worst -- Philosophy of the retch -- Aesthetics' tastes -- What is worse than the worst -- Objects, abjects, close-ups -- Laura Dern's vomit -- Wild hearts, sick figures -- Disgust and the cinema of haut go't -- Gastronomy according to peter greenaway -- Dissecting qualities -- Rot's progress -- On having an excellent palate -- Interval: formalism and affectivity -- Intermittency, embarrassment, dismay -- These things that creep, stir and squirm -- Heksebrev -- Interruption or the interval -- Esmoi, esmais, émoi -- Treading red blue water -- Nothing/will have taken place/but the place: open water anxiety -- Something or nothing -- A shark is a form of time -- A shark punctures a line -- Death is a turn of the color wheel -- Nothing but the place -- To begin again: the ingression of joyful forms -- Affirmable modes of recurrence -- (Shall we) let x = -- Putting one's faith in form.
- Subject(s)
- ISBN
- 9780822356448 (cloth : alk. paper)
0822356449 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780822356561 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0822356562 (pbk. : alk. paper) - Note
- AUTH: MASS. INST. OF TECH. LOCATES AFFECTS W/IN DETAILS OF CINEMATIC & TEXTUAL CONSTRUCTION.
- Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-332) and index.
- Source of Acquisition
- Purchased with funds from the Paterno Libraries Endowment; 2014
- Endowment Note
- Paterno Libraries Endowment
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