Rick Warner is associate professor and director of film studies in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He is the author of Godard and the Essay Film: A Form That Thinks (2018).

The Rebirth of Suspense offers a lucid and original contribution to the study of both suspense in general and how it operates in varieties of slow cinema. Rick Warner adds significantly to our understanding of different dimensions of suspense and hybrid effects in cinema that complicate oppositions between mainstream and arthouse approaches.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Suspense in Slow Time2. Minimal Thrills3. The Ambient Landscape4. Ailing Bodies on the Threshold of Action5. Gothic Uncertainty, Bordering on Horror6. Streaming the Undead Energies of “Film”NotesIndex

Rick Warner is associate professor and director of film studies in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He is the author of Godard and the Essay Film: A Form That Thinks (2018).

The Rebirth of Suspense offers a lucid and original contribution to the study of both suspense in general and how it operates in varieties of slow cinema. Rick Warner adds significantly to our understanding of different dimensions of suspense and hybrid effects in cinema that complicate oppositions between mainstream and arthouse approaches.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Suspense in Slow Time2. Minimal Thrills3. The Ambient Landscape4. Ailing Bodies on the Threshold of Action5. Gothic Uncertainty, Bordering on Horror6. Streaming the Undead Energies of “Film”NotesIndex

Rick Warner is associate professor and director of film studies in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He is the author of Godard and the Essay Film: A Form That Thinks (2018).

The Rebirth of Suspense offers a lucid and original contribution to the study of both suspense in general and how it operates in varieties of slow cinema. Rick Warner adds significantly to our understanding of different dimensions of suspense and hybrid effects in cinema that complicate oppositions between mainstream and arthouse approaches.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Suspense in Slow Time2. Minimal Thrills3. The Ambient Landscape4. Ailing Bodies on the Threshold of Action5. Gothic Uncertainty, Bordering on Horror6. Streaming the Undead Energies of “Film”NotesIndex