The Forms of the Affects is a beautifully written, complex text that weaves together visual and temporal forms drawn from film and literature with the affects grief, disgust, anxiety and joy.
Dylann M. McLean
Emotion, Space and Society
To anyone interested in questions of form and affect, this important book is sure to generate discussion ... Read morefor some time to come.... Reading this book is, dare I say it, an exhilaratingly affective experience.
Jennifer Peterson
Film Quarterly
Eugenie Brinkema's The Forms of the Affects is an innovative book that will surely be of great interest to scholars of affect and film studies in particular, but the possibilities for her method will also be useful to those in visual studies, literary, feminist, and queer theory, philosophy, and cultural studies more broadly.
Rachel Alpha Johnston Hurst
Reviews in Cultural Theory
[A] bold corrective to affect scholarship in film studies . . . as challenging theoretically as it is delightful and useful formally. It models freedom and ingenuity in its extraction of form out of intellectual history on emotions, etymology, and even culinary knowledge, and in its patient and playful reading of film.
Alina Haliliuc
Film Criticism
Highly recommended. Graduate students, faculty, researchers.
R. B. Wise
Choice
[Brinkema's] first book restores affect as a theoretical site of limitless possibility rather than the term of interpretive foreclosure it has largely become. The Forms of the Affects is a tantalizingly ambitious contribution to affect theory that may even prove sui generis as affective film studies turns over a new leaf of close reading.
Stephanie Amon
Afterimage
Eugenie Brinkema's The Forms of the Affects is overflowing with words that splice subjects together in numerous, thrilling combinations. . . .Brinkema's use of language... brilliantly materialises the book's central thesis.
Tom Hastings
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