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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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.
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Original language English
Type of outcome Presentations at conferences
Field of Study 60304 Religious studies
Country of publisher United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Confidentiality degree is not subject to a state or trade secret
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Organization unit Faculty of Arts
Keywords in English Psychedelics; Film; Supernatural; Cosmic Joke; Cosmic Horror
Tags Cosmic Horror, Cosmic Joke, film, Psychedelics, Supernatural
Tags International impact, Reviewed
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Abstract
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.
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