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The New Cinematic Weird

Atmospheres and Worldings
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The New Cinematic Weird argues that weird fiction is rising also in audiovisual culture. Presenting several detailed analyses of weird cinematic works, the book shows how the new cinematic weird is best understood as atmospheric worldings - affective intensities that suffuse the experience of the cinematic weird. The weird exists as an experiential field, an inflation of the world. These worldings disclose a variety of experiences. The book engagingly shows how creepy, unsettling, ominous, uneasy, and eerie atmospheres provide a way into the weird experience. This book is important to anyone interested in the audiovisual weird, cinematic atmospheres, how audiovisual media produce worlds, and how weird fiction challenges our conception of the way the world is.
Steen Ledet Christiansen is professor of popular visual culture at Aalborg University, Denmark.
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
Extending critical feelers into the slippery, barely explored labyrinths of televisual and cinematic weirdness, The New Cinematic Weird: Atmospheres and Worldings offers a remarkably precise navigation of the techniques and tropes that evoke the weirdweave of narrative worlds, of looped times and twisted spaces, corporeal ecstasies and dissolutions, repeated undoings of look and sound. Demonstrating the importance of mood, atmosphere and affect to weirdworlding, it pursues smart and rigorously illuminating analyses of the disorienting work of the Weird. Weirder still, unspeakable, even, in these post-critical times: the powerful revenance of a psychoanalysis dripping with jouissance, nachtraglichkeit, uncannies and curious topologies carves out the shredded scaffold from which the rich and ragged worldweave hangs...--Fred Botting, Kingston School of Art It's a real testament to Steen Christiansen's work that a category as abstract and slippery as the weird, marked by epistemological difficulty and genre blurring, is described here with such precision and clarity.--Sarah Juliet Lauro, University of Tampa
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