Gormley (media studies, U. of East London) looks at a new strand of Hollywood cinema in the 1990s characterized by an attempt to renegotiate and reanimate the i... » 

Gormley (media studies, U. of East London) looks at a new strand of Hollywood cinema in the 1990s characterized by an attempt to renegotiate and reanimate the immediacy and affective qualities of the cinematic experience within the commercial media. All the ones he considers try to assault the body of the viewer and make it act involuntarily to imi «