TY - BOOK AU - Fleming,David H. TI - Unbecoming Cinema: Unsettling Encounters With Ethical Event Films SN - 9781783207763 PB - Intellect Ltd KW - Performing Arts / Film KW - bisacsh KW - Language Arts & Disciplines / Communication Studies KW - Performing arts KW - Electronic books N1 - Access copy available to the general public N2 - Unbecoming Cinema constitutes a welcome addition to texts that provide a film-philosophical perspective on films that otherwise take on and involve difficult subject matter, including in this case suicide, autistic worldviews, hallucinatory aesthetics and vomit-gore. The book in effect argues successfully and intelligently that even though hard to watch, many of these films can provide for viewers an opportunity to come to a renewed understanding of self and world. As a result, the author takes on difficult topics, but brings them to life in an exciting, philosophical fashion that also asks readers to rethink what it is that constitutes cinema UR - https://openresearchlibrary.org/content/1a887c8f-ce48-4838-97a2-2e95d191a9a0 ER -