Unbecoming cinema : unsettling encounters with ethical event films / David H. Fleming.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-205) and index.

Introduction: on ethics and evental encounters -- Part I. Exposing and revealing -- Death 24X a haecceity: or Deleuze, life and the ethico-aesthetics of documenting suicide in (and off) The bridge -- Cinema and/as autism: disorder-ing movements from the intellect to intuition, ego to the eco, and 'pre-chunked' perception to in-forming haecceitic 'shapes' (via Deligny and Guattari) -- Part II. Distorting and perverting -- Head cinema as body without organs: on Jodorowsky's Bitter Pill films and their Spinozian parallels -- That's 'really' sick: pervert horror, torture porn(ology), bad-taste and emetic affect in Lucifer Valentine's Unbecoming 'Cinema of repulsions.'

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Unbecoming Cinema explores the notion of cinema as a living, active agent, capable of unsettling and reconfiguring a person's thoughts, senses, and ethics. Film, according to David H. Fleming, is a dynamic force, arming audiences with the ability to see and make a difference in the world. Drawing heavily on Deleuze's philosophical insights, as well as those of Guattari and Badiou, the book critically examines unsettling and taboo footage from suicide documentaries to art therapy films, from portrayals of mental health and autism to torture porn. In investigating the effect of film on the mind and body, Fleming's shrewd analysis unites transgressive cinema with metaphysical concepts of the body and mind.

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