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The Tactile Eye: Touch and the Cinematic Experience

By Jennifer M. Barker

Book information

Publisher
University of California Press
Year
2009
ISBN
0520258428, 9780520258426
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
14 MB (14277954 bytes)
Edition
First Trade Paperback
Pages
208\208
Time added
2015-05-26 07:14:16
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Description

The Tactile Eye expands 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 cinemas; and work by Chuck Jones, Buster Keaton, the Quay Brothers, Satyajit Ray, Carolee Schneemann, and Tom Tykwer, among others.

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