The Place of Breath in Cinema - Softcover

Quinlivan, Davina

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0748683062 ISBN 13: 9780748683062

Verlag: Edinburgh University Press, 2014

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Reseña del editor

This is an exploration of the figuring of absence in film. This study considers the placement of the breathing body in the film experience and its implications for the study of embodiment in film and sensuous spectatorship. Davina Quinlivan shapes her engagement with film by the foregrounding of the human body in the filmic diegesis and the viewing experience. This emphasis on the human body as an breathing body coupled with its fresh engagement with continental philosophy, Post-Structuralist Film Theory and Contemporary Western Cinema, makes a unique and valuable contribution to the field. Case studies are taken from the work of major directors, including Cronenberg and von Trier. Key concepts explored are filmic space (air and the elemental in film), corporeality (bodies on screen and the film itself as a breathing body) and inter-subjectivity (community and sociality). It makes a notable contribution to the study of film sound and haptic perception.

Biografía del autor

Davina Quinlivan is an independent critic and writer, as well as part-time lecturer in Film Studies at King's College, London and Kingston University.

Über diese Auflage

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0748683062
• ISBN 13: 9780748683062
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 192