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Deleuze, Altered States and Film
How does cinema induce altered consciousness through dreams, hallucinations, drugs, trance, ecstasy, sound, colour, rhythm, and spatial distortion? How does this affective contamination reorganize the spectator's body and thought?
CORE QUESTION
How does cinema induce altered consciousness through dreams, hallucinations, drugs, trance, ecstasy, sound, colour, rhythm, and spatial distortion? How does this affective contamination reorganize the spectator's body and thought?
CONTRIBUTION
Powell builds a typology of altered consciousness that moves from dream machines and pharmacoanalysis through altered body maps to temporal distortion and fractal becoming. Deleuze and Guattari's assemblage, affect, haptics, and synaesthesia are applied across mainstream, art, and experimental cinema. The analysis follows how cinematic techniques derange the spectator's habitual coordinates. Digital and fractal images become new sensory directions.
READING ROUTE
Begin with the introduction and define an altered state as an event co-composed by film and spectator. Proceed through dream, drugs, sensorium, time, and fractal becoming, recording visual distortion, sonic organization, bodily response, and narrative consequence in separate columns. Dream signs expand circuits of actualization; direct time takes form when action loses its governing role.
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Deleuze, Altered States and Film
English · Edinburgh University Press · 2007
ISBN 9780748632824Verify original editionNo verifiable published translation was located in this review.
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The work was written in English. No verifiable published full translation in Simplified or Traditional Chinese was located.