Deleuze, Altered States and Film

by Anna Powell

Book Overview

Deleuze, Altered States and Film offers a typology of altered states, defining dream, hallucination, memory, trance and ecstasy in their cinematic expression. The book presents altered states films as significant neurological, psychological and philosophical experiences. Chapters engage with films that simultaneously present and induce altered consciousness. They consider dream states and the popularisation of alterity in drugs films. The altered...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0748649352
• ISBN13: 9780748649358
• Release Date: February 2012
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher