Monstrous incarnations
A problem of figuration
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https://doi.org/10.15448/1980-3729.2021.1.40124Keywords:
Cinema, Body, Figure, Flesh, ImageAbstract
This article examines how the figuration of the human in cinema articulates the notions of flesh, body, identity, character, figure, and image. We will resort to the monster as a figure that both explains and disturbs the usual process of figuration, revealing a split between bodies and identities and disinventing the body to expose the reality of the flesh. To this end, we will investigate the concepts of “figure” and “flesh” and analyze three horror films that instigate the same the sensation of the uncanny: Invasion of the body snatchers (Don Siegel, 1956), The thing (John Carpenter, 1982) and It follows (David Robert Mitchell, 2014).
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