Richard, David Evan2019-08-162019-08-162019https://necsus-ejms.org/episodes-of-depression-existential-feelings-and-embodiment-in-sharp-objects/https://mediarep.org/handle/doc/4939This article argues that the HBO recent limited series Sharp Objects (cr. Marti Noxon, 2018) invites spectators to share in the ‘existential feeling’ of depression. I draw on philosophers Matthew Ratcliffe and Thomas Fuchs who identify core embodied experiences of depression: corporealisation, detunement, and desynchronisation. Following accounts of screen mood and ‘existential feelings’, I analyse how the form of Sharp Objects – cinematography, textural sound, and arrhythmic editing – expresses the embodied experience of depression. This paper therefore further demonstrates how screen media can evoke ‘existential feelings’ in its audience to promote an embodied understanding of depression.engdepressionembodimentEmotionsexistential feelingsfilm-phenomenologyVerkörperungEmotionPhänomenologie79110.25969/mediarep/4174SHARP OBJECTS2213-0217