The Politics of Monstrous Figures in Contemporary Cinema: Witches, Zombies, and Cyborgs Re-Enchanting the Ends of the World - Hardcover
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Availability:Out of StockContributor:Francesco SticchiSeries:Horror and Gothic Media CulturesPublish date:01/20/25Pages:166
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Amsterdam University PressISBN-13:9789048563388ISBN-10:9048563380UPC:9789048563388Book Category:Art, Performing ArtsBook Subcategory:Film & Video, FilmBook Topic:GenresSize:9.29 x 6.06 x 0.55 inchesWeight:1.0119Product ID:SCM9SW2QJB
The book addresses the role of particular monstrous figures and apocalyptic scenarios in contemporary cinema and television and evaluates the political potential of horror and sci-fi narratives in our age of never-ending crises. The purpose of the book is to demonstrate how witches, zombies, and cyborgs (among other figures) present the spectre of new people to come, of new possibilities to inhabit the Earth against the apocalyptic fates of Capitalism.
Written in an 'acid communist' spirit, the book shows how it is possible to politicise contemporary popular culture tropes and figures, mapping the anxieties they express and also their undisclosed potential and resources. Balancing personal commentary and academic analyses, the book expresses Deleuzian trust in the power of moving images as instruments that allow us to inhabit the present and believe in this world notwithstanding alleged ends of all worlds.
Written in an 'acid communist' spirit, the book shows how it is possible to politicise contemporary popular culture tropes and figures, mapping the anxieties they express and also their undisclosed potential and resources. Balancing personal commentary and academic analyses, the book expresses Deleuzian trust in the power of moving images as instruments that allow us to inhabit the present and believe in this world notwithstanding alleged ends of all worlds.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Amsterdam University PressISBN-13:9789048563388ISBN-10:9048563380UPC:9789048563388Book Category:Art, Performing ArtsBook Subcategory:Film & Video, FilmBook Topic:GenresSize:9.29 x 6.06 x 0.55 inchesWeight:1.0119Product ID:SCM9SW2QJB
Francesco Sticchi is a Lecturer in Film Studies at Oxford Brookes University, UK. He is the author of the monograph Mapping Precarity in Contemporary Cinema and Television: Chronotopes of Anxiety, Depression, Expulsion/Extinction (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021) and works in the field of film-philosophy and ecology of media. He is co-founder of the Cinematic Precarity Research Network.
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
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