Immediacy cinema transforms spectators into accomplices through adrenaline-torrent immersion

Evidence

An extremity of mood: tension on the screen operating tension off screen, less a spectator than an accomplice riding what numerous critics deemed “a wild injection of pure cocaine.” In eerie synth music and chaotic multilayered sound, through a rapid-paced short-timespan pressure cooker narrative of debts coming due and new debts contracted to defer, and in dogged close-ups in claustrophobic spaces, the movie constructs excruciating stress, an adrenaline-torrent immersion. — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 191

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Early television commanded trance-like, immersive attention rivaling cinema. — Tim Wu, The Attention Merchants, 438; Spectatorship itself becomes a life-or-death determinant — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 683; A single viral image can convert spectators into committed participants — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and…, 220