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CINEMATIC POETICS OF GUILT - MATTHIAS GROTKOPP ...

How do the temporal and dynamic patterns of media forms and practices create complex
constructions of meaning  identity and value? How can we describe the way cinematic images
generate and transform the affectively grounded structures that survey  confirm or revise a
political community's horizon of values? Using the exemplary case of feelings of guilt  the
author develops an approach that makes patterns of audiovisual compositions intelligible as
aesthetic modulations of moral feelings. A sense of guilt is presented here as neither an
individualistic psychological emotion nor an external social mechanism of control but as a
paradigmatic case for understanding politics and history as based upon embodied affectivity and
shared relations to the world. By taking three distinct examples - German Post-War cinema 
Hollywood Western and films on climate change - patterns of audiovisual composition and the
inherent calculation of affect are analyzed as practices shaping the conditions of possibility
of political communities and their historicity.

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