Preface. Ten Points to Begin xi
1. A Tear That Does Not Drop, But Folds
2. Film Theory's Absent Center
Interval. Solitude
3. The Illumination of Light
4. Grief and the Undialectical Image
5. Aesthetic Exclusions and the Worse than the Worst
6. Disgust and the Cinema of Haut Goût
Interlude. Formalism and Affectivity
7. Intermittency, Embarrassment, Dismay
8. Nothing/Will Have Taken Place/But the Place: Open Water
Anxiety
9. To Begin Again: The Ingression of Joyful Forms
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Eugenie Brinkema is Assistant Professor of Contemporary Literature and Media at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
"The Forms of the Affects is an extraordinary book, brilliant, audacious, and breathtakingly original. I know of nothing else like it in film studies, or anywhere in theoretically-inspired critical writing across the humanities for that matter. It enters into some of the most vital and contentious debates in contemporary film theory and film studies; but it does this in an unprecedented way, giving surprising new answers where there have long been deadlocks. Eugenie Brinkema does not take sides in current disputes about the affective, cognitive, and formal dimensions of cinema; rather, she invents a new 'side' of her own." - Steven Shaviro, author of Without Criteria: Kant, Whitehead, Deleuze, and Aesthetics "The Forms of the Affects makes an important intervention into what has been described as the 'affective turn,' asking what 'formal affect' involves, or, put another way, what remains of affect if it is not thought through the lens of the subject. As she traces, with humor and verve, the ways philosophers have thought about sympathy, pathos, moral sentiment, crying, disgust, grief, loss, anxiety, and failure, Eugenie Brinkema repeatedly considers what it means to consider these experiences as visual problems. Through close readings of an impressive range of texts drawn from film, poetry, and experimental music, and spanning ancient to modern periods, the book explores the aesthetic forms that affect produces, and how reading affect for form pushes us to rethink the nature of formalism itself." - Karen Beckman, author of Animating Film Theory
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