Unbecoming Cinema

Unbecoming CinemaUnbecoming Cinema explores the notion of cinema as a living, active agent, capable of unsettling and reconfiguring a persons 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 Deleuzes philosophical insights, as well as those of Guattari and Badiou, the book critically examines unsettling and taboo footage, from suicide

and how the very idea of counterfeiting transcends the physical coin itself and applies to those who produce them

cultural history

and then explores the subject through today’s political

shedding light on historical and theoretical aspects of composed theatre

the effects of conquest introduce a new set of postcolonial aesthetics as military and colonial regimes disrupt local textile production and garment making

media manipulation and performance

human consciousness studies and neuroscience in the application of the techniques

What makes the volume of interest is the voice it gives to young scholars who would perhaps otherwise not have offered their papers for publication

curated from both canonical and overlooked classics from writers around the globe

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The book also includes contemporary interviews with local Parisians

In May 1921