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dc.contributor.advisorMartin-Jones, David
dc.contributor.authorFleming, David H.
dc.coverage.spatialiii, 220 p.en_US
dc.date.accessioned2010-09-13T10:46:29Z
dc.date.available2010-09-13T10:46:29Z
dc.date.issued2009-11-23
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/985
dc.description.abstractDrugs, Danger, Delusions (and Deleuzians?) opens up a philosophical investigation into a series of ‘extreme’ mind and body films drawn from different historical contexts. Through two sections and four distinct chapters, cinema is explored as an agent of becoming that allows viewers to think and feel in an affected manner. Investigating a broad spectrum of extreme narratives focusing on drugs, hooligan violence, insomnia and madness, the project provides a focused historical understanding of the films’ affective regimes and aesthetic agendas. The different lines of flight and escape explored on-screen all somehow appear to spiral around the same issues, concepts, ideas and philosophies. Utilising the cinematic theories of Gilles Deleuze along with his philosophical work co-authored with Félix Guattari, the thesis aims to investigate a range of related films, that in the extreme, reveal underlying models of an integrated or parallel mind and body and immanently embedded identity; wherein the concept of a stable and fixed being is replaced by that of a fluid becoming. All chapters investigate how immanently embedded characters embark upon extreme or dangerous lines of escape, where the reinvention of living and thinking is explored and made visible. The first section investigates a range of ‘head-films’ that take the mind as their theme, but are found to plicate and expand consciousness into the parallel body. The second section investigates extreme body films that push the sensory-motor schema to its limits so that thought, perception and consciousness become affected. The two interrelated sections investigate how the films and filmmakers employ different regimes of mind and body cinema to aesthetically convey and relay these concepts to the spectator. The project thus strives to develop Deleuzian paradigms beyond their original scope to explore parallel-image regimes and sequences that allow spectators to think and feel the films’ underlying philosophical concepts and positions.en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of St Andrews
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/
dc.subjectDeleuzeen_US
dc.subjectExtreme body or brain cinemaen_US
dc.subject.lccPN1995.F64en_US
dc.subject.lcshMotion pictures--Psychological aspectsen_US
dc.subject.lcshAltered states of consciousnessen_US
dc.subject.lcshMind and body in motion picturesen_US
dc.subject.lcshDeleuze, Gilles--Views on motion picturesen_US
dc.subject.lcshExperimental films--History and criticismen_US
dc.titleDrugs, danger, delusions (and Deleuzians?) : extreme film-philosophy journeys into and beyond the parallel body and minden_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
dc.type.qualificationlevelDoctoralen_US
dc.type.qualificationnamePhD Doctor of Philosophyen_US
dc.publisher.institutionThe University of St Andrewsen_US
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.17630/10023-985


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