Ther book investigates contemporary women directors who put 'a poetics of horror' to new use in their work, expanding the range of gendered and racialized perspectives in the horror genre
Revisiting the foundational question of feminist critique - what difference does difference make? - this expansive study of female-directed horror films considers not just what feminist readings offer to a poetics of horror, but what the poetics of horror can offer to feminist thinking, expanding its understanding of materiality, embodiment, affect, violence, desire, form, and relationality itself.'
Eugenie Brinkema, author of The Forms of the...
Patricia Pisters is Professor of Media Culture and Film Studies and Chair of Media Studies at the University of Amsterdam. Her publications include The Matrix of Visual Culture: Working with Deleuze in Film Theory (Stanford, 2003).
Patricia Pisters is Professor of Media Culture and Film Studies and Chair of Media Studies at the University of Amsterdam. Her publications include The Matrix of Visual Culture: Working with Deleuze in Film Theory (Stanford, 2003).
This book explores Gilles Deleuze's contribution to film theory. According to Deleuze, we have come to live in a universe that could be described as metacinematic. His conception of images implies a new kind of camera consciousness, one that determines our perceptions and sense of selves: aspects of our subjectivities are formed in, for instance, action-images, affection-images and time-images. We live in a matrix of visual culture that is alw...
Louis Van Gasteren was one of the most prolific filmmakers in the history of the Netherlands, with a resume that includes nearly eighty documentaries and two feature films-to say nothing of artworks and books.
Filming for the Future offers an extended exploration of Van Gasteren's work and audio-visual world. Patricia Pisters introduces us to a filmmaker who always had his camera ready and was relentless in filming a wide range of topics and...
The first monograph of the work of one of the Netherlands' most prolific filmmakers spanning sixty years of cultural history ranging from the second world war to the rebellious sixties and eighties, from Dutch water management to modern architecture, and from Europe to global consciousness.
This book presents a journey in the rich audio-visual and artistic sources of the world of a filmmaker who over the last sixty years, and long before we a...
This book explores Gilles Deleuze's contribution to film theory. According to Deleuze, we have come to live in a universe that could be described as metacinematic. His conception of images implies a new kind of camera consciousness, one that determines our perceptions and sense of selves: aspects of our subjectivities are formed in, for instance, action-images, affection-images and time-images. We live in a matrix of visual culture that is alw...
