Visions of the Silver Screen : Psychedelics, Cosmic Horrors and
Cosmic Jokes in Film

k 2023

Visions of the Silver Screen : Psychedelics, Cosmic Horrors and Cosmic Jokes in Film

MARRONE, Tancredi Andrew

Basic information

Original name

Visions of the Silver Screen : Psychedelics, Cosmic Horrors and Cosmic Jokes in Film

Authors

MARRONE, Tancredi Andrew

Edition

International Conference on Film Studies: "Identity and Otherness in Film", Hybrid, 4-5 February, 2023, Birkbeck, Department of Film, Media and Cultural Studies, University of London, GB, 2023

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Prezentace na konferencích

Field of Study

60304 Religious studies

Country of publisher

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

References:

URL

Organization unit

Faculty of Arts

Keywords in English

Psychedelics; Film; Supernatural; Cosmic Joke; Cosmic Horror

Abstract

V originále

From Enter the Void by Gaspar Noé to Altered States by Ken Russel, but also Mandy with Nicholas Cage and David Cronenberg’s adaptation of William Burroughs’ The Naked Lunch, this presentation will analyze the use of psychedelics and bodily alchemy as a hermetic key into both the cosmic horror and the cosmic joke. How will the screen interpret these effects with its own mind-altering qualities? How will the story be told and what perspectives and values will be given to the means for the expansion of consciousness and the meta perceptual? These will be some of the questions that will be explored in this presentation. I will moreover analyze how the use of psychedelics is often linked to the access to different levels of existence whether that of spirits, extraterrestrials, parallel realities or even temporal lines. These I will relate to the cultural background which presents narratives on a spectrum between the horrific, the bizarre and the transcendental.

Links

MUNI/A/1417/2022, interní kód MU

Name: Víra, vědění a kolektivní jednání: Informační technologie a kolektivní zvládání výzev antropocénu

Investor: Masaryk University, Belief, knowledge, and collective action: Information technologies and the collective handling of the challenges of the Anthropocene

Citovat

MARRONE, Tancredi Andrew. Visions of the Silver Screen : Psychedelics, Cosmic Horrors and Cosmic Jokes in Film. In International Conference on Film Studies: "Identity and Otherness in Film", Hybrid, 4-5 February, 2023, Birkbeck, Department of Film, Media and Cultural Studies, University of London, GB. 2023.

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MARRONE, Tancredi Andrew. Visions of the Silver Screen : Psychedelics, Cosmic Horrors and Cosmic Jokes in Film. In \textit{International Conference on Film Studies: ''Identity and Otherness in Film'', Hybrid, 4-5 February, 2023, Birkbeck, Department of Film, Media and Cultural Studies, University of London, GB}. 2023.

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