The Impulse-Image of Vampiric Capital and the Politics of Vision and Disability
Evil and Horror in Don’t Breathe
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22007271 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Moritz Wischert-Zielke (0000-0003-4739-2358, Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 492-525 |
| Publication date | 2021-07-14 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | CINEJ Cinema Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2158-8724 • E-ISSN: 2159-2411 |
| Publisher | University Library System, University of Pittsburgh (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.5195/cinej.2021.382 |
| OpenAlex | W3179336149 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 11 |
This article examines affective and semiotic aspects of Don’t Breathe’s construction of evil and horror. To work towards a post-genre approach to horror, evil and horror are re-examined and differentiated on a discursive level in a first theoretic step. The following film analysis takes Fede Álvarez’ 2016 horror film Don’t Breathe as its case. In a first part, it draws from the Marxian metaphor of vampiric capital and employs a Deleuzian approach to film in focusing on the impulse-image of Don’t Breathe. In a second part, the analysis of evil and monstrous horror then takes into account political notions of the film’s themes of blindness and (dis)ability, thereby moving from a (primarily) affective perspective to a rather semiotic discussion
Aesthetics · Art · Blindness · Epistemology · Linguistics · Metaphor · Political science · Politics · Psychoanalysis · Semiotics · Sociology · Visual arts · Gothic Literature and Media Analysis · Law · Medicine · Philosophy · Psychology · Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology · Utopian, Dystopian, and Speculative Fiction
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,2 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2021 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |