This volume explores the place of the sublime in contemporary culture and the aesthetic, cultural, and political values coded in it. It offers a map of the contemporary sublime in terms of the limits-cinematic, cognitive, neurophysiological, technological, or environmental-of representation.

Temenuga Trifonova is Associate Professor in the Department of Cinema and Media Arts at York University in Toronto, Canada.

Editor's Introduction

[Temenuga Trifonova]

1. The Event That Cannot (Not) Happen

[Adrian Ivakhiv]

2. Sublimity and the Dialectic of Horror and Spirituality

[Paul Coates]

3. The Popular Sublime and the Notional Sublime

[James Kirwan]

4. Of Fake and Real Sublimes

[Temenuga Trifonova]

5. 'Black and Glittering': The Inscrutable Sublime

[Barbara Stafford]

6. Uncertainty Prone to Vulgarity

[Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe]

7. Recentering The Sublime: Cognitive and Neuropsychological Approaches

[Elizabeth Oldfather]

8. Flow, Freedom, and the Gamified Sublime

[Lyuba Encheva]

9. The Ambiguity Effects of the Techno-Sublime

[Ksenia Fedorova]

10. From Diagrams to Deities: Evoking the Cosmological Sublime

[Hannah Goodwin]

11. Feeling Not at Home in the 21st Century World: The Sublime in Contemporary Environmental Aesthetics

[Sandra Shapshay]

12. The Sublime in Environmental Photography

[Damian Sutton]

13. Magnificent Disasters: Sublime Landscapes in Post-Millennial Cinema

[Stella Hockenhull]

14. Psychedelia and the History of the Chemical Sublime

[Joseph Gabriel]

15. The Birds and the Bees: The Gendering of the Sublime

[Bill Beckley]