The place of breath in cinema / Davina Quinlivan
- Author
- Quinlivan, Davina
- Published
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2012]
- Copyright Date
- ©2012
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (viii, 190 pages) : illustrations
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- Contents
- Introduction: troubling invisibility and the breathing body -- The haptic logic of a breathing body: elemental topographies of memory and loss -- An 'air in flesh': an anatomy of breath, carnality and transcendance: the breathing bodies of David Cronenberg -- Towards inter-subjectivities of breath and the breathing film viewer: Lars von Trier's 'Gold Heart' trilogy -- Conclusion.
- Summary
- PitchHow can the cinema articulate the interstices between visibility and invisibility, and how are such notions of absence and the unseen implicated in the film experience? This study considers the locus of the breathing body in the film experience and its implications for the study of embodiment in film and sensuous spectatorship. Quinlivan puts forward a mode of critical engagement with film shaped by the foregrounding of the human body in the filmic diegesis and the viewing experience. The book's foregrounding of the human body as an, importantly, breathing body in film, 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.
- Subject(s)
- ISBN
- 9780748649006 (webready PDF)
074864900X (webready PDF)
9780748664740 (epub)
0748664742 (epub)
9780748664733 (Amazon ebook)
0748664734 (Amazon ebook)
9780748648993 (hardback)
0748648992 (hardback)
9781280874895
1280874899 - Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
Filmography: pages 185-187.
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