Unbecoming Cinema

David H. Fleming is assistant professor of film and media studies at the University of Nottingham, Ningbo, China.

• Introduction: On Ethics and Eventual EncountersDavid H. Flemming Part I: Exposing and RevealingDavid H. Flemming Death 24X A Haecceity: Or Deleuze, Life and the Ethico-Aesthetics of Documenting Suicide in (and off) The BridgeDavid H. Flemming Cinema and/as Autism: Dis-ordering Movements from the Intellect to Intuition, Ego to the Eco, and 'Pre-chunked' Perception to In-forming Haecceitic 'Shapes' (via Deligny and Guattari)David H. Flemming Part II: Distorting and PervertingDavid H. Flemming Head Cinema as Body without Organs: On Jodorowsky's Bitter Pill Films and Their Spinozian Parallels David H. Flemming That's 'Really' Sick: Pervert Horror, Torture Porn(ology), Bad-Taste and Emetic Affect in Lucifer Valentines "Unbecoming 'Cinema of Repulsions' David H. Flemming

'Unbecoming Cinema presents a compelling, fascinating and definitely challenging account of the cinematic ethics of negativity and, with its collection of analyses and discussions of disturbing ethical film events, it constitutes an incredibly effective and precious document for those interested in the possibility of building a practical and experimental film ethics that passes through an embodied film-philosophy. However, Fleming's text also expresses a political and ethical act itself. In this terrifying age of sad passions, when hatred, anguish, and, most of all, resentment appear as the only emotions we are still able to feel, showing us how to embrace the negative, and how to reprocess and to transform it into active knowledge and affirmative power is an act of absolute and joyful resistance.'