New Cinematic Weird - Atmospheres and Worldings

The New Cinematic Weird analyzes the role that creepy, unsettling, ominous, uneasy, and eerie atmospheres play in recent films of this genre. The author shows how the new cinematic weird elicits joy by creating weird atmospheres as affective intensities that are to be experienced rather than understood.

List of contents

Table of Contents
Introduction: Feeling Weird
1. Creepiness, Ecstasy, and Weird Narration in The OA
2. Unsettling Time in Dark
3. Ominous Metamorphosis in Starry Eyes
4. Discontinuity and Unease in Stranger Things
5. Eerieness and Disorientation: Channel Zero: Candle Cove and David Bowie's "Blackstar" and "Lazarus"
6. Unworlding and Disquiet in Annihilation
Conclusion: For the Weird

About the author

Steen Ledet Christiansen is professor of culture, media, and aesthetics at Aalborg University, Denmark.

Product details

• Authors: Steen Ledet Christiansen, Christiansen Steen Ledet
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.04.2021
• EAN: 9781793612748
• ISBN: 978-1-79361-274-8
• No. of pages: 186
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, Society & culture: general, ART / Film & Video, Society and culture: general, Electronic, holographic & video art, Digital, video and new media arts