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Flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
'Visceral Screens argues eloquently for horror's centrality to essential debates in contemporary film and media studies theory. By framing horror beyond conventional notions of cautionary or anxious relations to media technologies, Allan Cameron presents a fascinating new account of horror as an 'intermediate' genre: between meanings encompassing bodies, images, and image-bodies.' Adam Lowenstein, University of Pittsburgh Horror cinema grants bodies and images a precarious hold on sense and order: from the zombie's gory disintegration to the shaky visuals of 'found footage' horror, and from the vampire's absent reflection to the spectacle of shattering glass in the Italian giallo. Addressing classic horror movies alongside popular and innovative contemporary works, Visceral Screens investigates how they have rendered the human form as a media artefact, dramatically dis-figuring it with optical effects, chromatic shifts, glitches and audiovisual fragmentation. Conducting their own anatomies of the screen, cutting into the matter of cinema, horror films revel in the breakdown of frames, patterns and figures, undermining subjectivity and meaning. Allan Cameron is Senior Lecturer in Media, Film and Television at the University of Auckland, New Zealand Cover image: Ana - Remix of Amer (2012), created by Ouananiche based on the feature film Amer (2009), directed by Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani, produced by Anonymes Films and Tobina Film. Cover design: [EUP logo] edinburghuniversitypress.com ISBN 978-1-4744-1919-2 Barcode
A Hungarian psychology professor, who emigrated to the United States at the age of 22. Now at Claremont Graduate University, he is the former head of the department of psychology at the University of Chicago and of the department of sociology and anthropology at Lake Forest College. He is noted for both his work in the study of happiness and creativity and also for his notoriously difficult name, in terms of pronunciation for non-native speakers of the Hungarian language, but is best known as the architect of the notion of flow and for his years of research and writing on the topic. He is the author of many books and over 120 articles or book chapters. Martin Seligman, former president of the American Psychological Association, described Csikszentmihalyi as the world's leading researcher on positive psychology. Csikszentmihalyi once said Repression is not the way to virtue. When people restrain themselves out of fear, their lives are by necessity diminished. Only through freely chosen discipline can life be enjoyed and still kept within the bounds of reason. His works are influential and are widely cited.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780061339202 |
| ISBN 10 | 0061339202 |
| Title | Flow |
| Author | Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi |
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| Binding type | Paperback |
| Publisher | HarperCollins Publishers Inc |
| Year published | 2008-07-01 |
| Number of pages | 303 |
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