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Cinema’s Baroque Flesh: Film, Phenomenology and the Art of Entanglement

By Saige Walton

Book information

Publisher
Amsterdam University Press
Year
2016
ISBN
9089649514, 9789089649515
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1711509 bytes)
Series
Film Culture in Transition
Pages
278\279
Scanned
yes
Time added
2017-01-05 02:36:37
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Description

In Cinema’s Baroque Flesh, Saige Walton draws on the philosophy of Maurice Merleau-Ponty to argue for a distinct aesthetic category of film and a unique cinema of the senses: baroque cinema. Combining media archaeological work with art history, phenomenology, and film studies, the book offers close analyses of a range of historic baroque artworks and films, including Caché, Strange Days, the films of Buster Keaton, and many more. Walton pursues previously unexplored connections between film, the baroque, and the body, opening up new avenues of embodied film theory that can make room for structure, signification, and thought, as well as the aesthetics of sensation.

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