The Terror That Makes One Whatever One Is

This article conducts a critical narrative of the public lives and performances of the actor Sterling Hayden as a contribution to the theory of emotion. Cultural theories of feeling have frequently suspended their attention to the diachronies of story and history in favor of a synchronic analysis of affect and ontology. This article argues that the analysis of a particular passion, coalescing in a series of moments in a single star text, offers a way to reconcile these divergent theoretical models

Aesthetics · Affect (linguistics · Art · Epistemology · Feeling · Literature · Narrative · Ontology · Passion · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · Communication · History of Emotions Research · Philosophy · Psychology · Rhetoric and Communication Studies · Social Psychology · Visual Culture and Art Theory