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oapen-20.500.12657-313642021-11-04T14:06:36Z Unbecoming Cinema Fleming, David H. Media and Communications Alejandro Jodorowsky Autism Gilles Deleuze Suicide Vomiting bic Book Industry Communication::A The arts::AP Film, TV & radio::APF Films, cinema 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. 2017-05-01 23:55:55 2020-03-19 03:00:36 2020-04-01T13:32:44Z 2020-04-01T13:32:44Z 2017-04-28 book 630213 OCN: 993476473 9781783207763 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/31364 eng application/pdf n/a 630213.pdf Intellect 10.26530/oapen_630213 100377 10.26530/oapen_630213 dba70200-fc42-4588-b068-f9ec198260f0 b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9781783207763 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) Bristol 100377 KU Select 2016 Front List Collection Knowledge Unlatched open access
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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.
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