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Vital Resonances: Encountering Film with Varda, Haneke and Nancy

Book information

Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Year
2021
ISBN
1474436951, 9781474436953
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
17 MB (18144335 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
216\217
Time added
2024-04-22 08:38:15

Description

Since the pioneering work of Vivian Sobchack, Laura U. Marks and Jennifer M. Barker, film studies has increasingly embraced multisensory spectatorship. Such approaches privilege a carnal vision and knowledge of the world. Vital Resonances furthers this work and attunes to what is a foundational, yet overlooked, principle of film studies’ bodily turn: resonance. In keeping with the soft touch that characterises some of this turn’s critical literature – the feel of velvet, the (frustrated) tactility of a sari, the skin of a lover’s body – resonance has been brushed over. Through the work of three leading figures in European cinema, Agnès Varda, Michael Haneke and Jean-Luc Nancy, this book establishes resonance as a critical and conceptual paradigm for film analysis, transforming it from a footnote to the bodily turn and finally placing it at the forefront of our fleshy encounter with film.

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