Beyond the Constraints of Reality Time Space and Metaphysics in Lucio Fulcis The Beyond Kim Toft Hansen Aalborg University Our only refuge is to remain in the world but outside time ID: 762586
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Beyond the Constraints of Reality Time, Space and Metaphysics in Lucio Fulci’s The Beyond Kim Toft Hansen, Aalborg University “Our only refuge is to remain in the world but outside time.” Lucio Fulci
Cult consumptionProbing the boundaries of mainstream masses and elite tastes…“an inassimilable materiality of a film, visual or aural, that cannot fit into the narrative snugly and so attracts attention” (Andrew Nestingen Crime and Fantasy in Scandinavia) The metaphysical components of horror…
The constraints of reality Temporal and spatial constraints of reality…Hesitation towards supernatural explanations…Belief in scientific realism … Mikhail Bakhtin: horizontal and vertical time…Conflict between horizontal and vertical time… As time breaks down, space breaks down…
Diegetically Excessive Style Middle region between the ’normal’ and the paranormal…1. Non-diegetic background music… 2. Non-diegetic music turns diegetic…3. Diegetic ‘paranormal’ music… Self-reflexive and excessive style (metafiction)…
Emotions of horrorCognitive psychology and evolution…Natural horror… Art horror…Suspension of disbelief and religious absolutions…From the constraints of reality into the field of metaphysics… Art-horror stimuli of style…‘Used up’ horror styles…
Metaphysics of horror Analogical and cognitive similarities with religiousness…A feeling of radical uncertainty…Metaphysical horror…
Cognitive reward Cognitive natural reward by dopamine…Metaphysical interconnectedness…Horror fiction produces dopamine…The emotion of art-horror: “the idea that Dracula is a possible being”…The emotion of belief: ”the idea that God is a possible being”…Analogy between horror and religion… The true paradox of horror is that bloody transgressions actually make us feel better!
ContactKim Toft HansenAalborg University, Denmark kimtoft@hum.aau.dkThank you!