Unbecoming Cinema
Author | : David H. Fleming |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2017 |
ISBN-10 | : 1783207760 |
ISBN-13 | : 9781783207763 |
Rating | : 4/5 (60 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: Unbecoming Cinema constitutes a welcome addition to texts that provide a film-philosophical perspective on films that otherwise take on and involve difficult subject matter, including in this case suicide, autistic worldviews, hallucinatory aesthetics and vomit-gore. The book in effect argues successfully and intelligently that even though hard to watch, many of these films can provide for viewers an opportunity to come to a renewed understanding of self and world. As a result, the author takes on difficult topics, but brings them to life in an exciting, philosophical fashion that also asks readers to rethink what it is that constitutes cinema