Grotkopp Cinematic Poetics of Guilt

Audiovisual Accusation as a Mode of Commonality
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-3-11-061129-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 9, 265 Seiten

Reihe: Cinepoetics - English edition

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.

Zielgruppe

Scholars of film studies, media studies, culture studies, history

Autoren/Hrsg.

Grotkopp, Matthias

Weitere Mitwirkende

Hendrickson, Daniel

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmtheorie, Filmanalyse
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ästhetik
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften Film, Video, Foto

Über Autor(innen)

Matthias Grotkopp, Freie Universität Berlin/Cinepoetics, Berlin, Germany.