Cinema and Sensation French Film and the Art of Transgression

Name: Cinema and Sensation French Film and the Art of Transgression
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ISBN: 9780748649365

ISBN-10: 0748649360

ISBN-13: 9780748649365

Edition: 2012

Authors: Martine Beugnet

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This book looks at a much-debated phenomenon in contemporary cinema: the re-emergence of filmmaking practices (and, by extension, of theoretical approaches) that give precedence to cinema as the medium of the senses.France offers an intriguing case in point here. A specific sense of momentum comes from the release, in close succession, of a series of films that exemplify a characteristic awareness of cinema’s sensory impact and transgressive nature: Adieu; A ma soeur; Baise-moi; Beau Travail; La Blessure; La Captive; Dans ma peau; Demonlover; L’Humanité; Flandres; L’Intrus; Les Invisibles; Lady Chatterley; Leçons de ténèbres; Romance; Sombre; Tiresia; Trouble Every Day; Twentynine Palms;…

Book details

List price: $27.99
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Publication date: 2/20/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Size: 9.10" wide x 6.10" long x 0.40" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English

Martine Beugnet is Professor in Visual Studies at Paris 7 Diderot.



Acknowledgements


Beginnings


Sombre


Lecons de tï¿½nï¿½bres


Cinema and Sensation


Doing away with the Cbntext?


French Cinema and Transgression



A 'Third Path'


The 'precocious old age of the cinema'


The 'precocious old age' of Film Theory and Criticism


The Trouble with French Cinema: Film and Transgression


Horror that Sticks


Pornocracies


Liminal Visions


The Art of Sensation



The Aesthetics of Sensation


The Haptic and the Optical


From Formlessness to Immanence


Synaesthesia


Close-up


The Gaze of the Inanimate


The Aesthetics of Chaos



Film Bodies (Becomings and Embodiment)


From Genre to Archetype


Becomings


Film Bodies


Corporate (Dis)embodiment


Becoming Film


Epilogue


Bibliography


Filmography


Index