Tactile Eye Touch and the Cinematic Experience

Name: Tactile Eye Touch and the Cinematic Experience
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ISBN: 9780520258426

ISBN-10: 0520258428

ISBN-13: 9780520258426

Edition: 2009

Authors: Jennifer M. Barker, J. M. Barker

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The Tactile Eyeexpands on phenomenological analysis and film theory in its accessible and beautifully written exploration of the visceral connection between films and their viewers. Jennifer M. Barker argues that the experience of cinema can be understood as deeply tactile--a sensuous exchange between film and viewer that goes beyond the visual and aural, gets beneath the skin, and reverberates in the body. Barker combines analysis of embodiment and phenomenological film theory to provide an expansive description of cinematic tactility. She considers feminist experimental film, early cinema, animation, and horror, as well as classic, modernist, and postmodern cinema; films from ten national…

Book details

List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 5/27/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English

Jennifer M. Barker is Assistant Professor of Moving Image Studies in the Department of Communication, Georgia State University.



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgments


Introduction: Eye Contact Tactility Film's Body Moving Pictures Touch and Go



Skin Textural Analysis Film's Skin Eroticism Pleasure Horror History Mon Amour



Musculature Through a Glass Deftly Empathy Here and There A Tenuous Grasp Apprehension



Viscera Heart-stopping Hiccups La Petite Mort Child's Play


Conclusion: Inspiration Breathtaking The Wind in the Trees Everywhere and Always The Big Swallow


Notes


Bibliography


Index