1st Edition
Images of Blood in American Cinema The Tingler to The Wild Bunch
By Kjetil Rødje
Copyright 2015
212 Pages
by
Routledge
212 Pages
by
Routledge
212 Pages
by
Routledge
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Through studying images of blood in film from the mid-1950s to the end of the 1960s, this path-breaking book explores how blood as an (audio)visual cinematic element went from predominately operating as a signifier, providing audiences with information about a film’s plot and characters, to increasingly operating in terms of affect, potentially evoking visceral and embodied responses in viewers.... Read more
Images of Blood in American Cinema
Biography
Kjetil Rødje is Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Media, Cognition and Communication at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. He is the co-editor of Deleuzian Intersections: Science, Technology and Anthropology (Berghan, 2009).
’How do images of blood and gore work in American cinema? In this book, Kjetil Rødje discusses, not so much what bloody images mean, as what they do: how they move and perturb us, and why we keep on coming back for more. This book makes a major contribution to affect theory, to film studies, and to the ever-perplexing question of how our culture profoundly changed over the course of that unsettled decade, the 1960s.’ Steven Shaviro, Wayne State University, USA ’Movie blood, Kjetil Rødje shows, is an assemblage: at once a cinematic image, a material product of inventive special-effects technicians, and an effect in the bodies and minds of audiences. In demonstrating how, over two decades, blood in movies metamorphosed from a sign to an affect, Rødje’s lively and well-researched book makes a strong contribution to media studies, theory of affect, and interdisciplinary methodology.’ Laura U. Marks, Simon Fraser University, Canada
