Cinema and Sensation: French Film and the Art of Transgression - Brossura

Beugnet, Martine

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ISBN 10: 0748649360 ISBN 13: 9780748649365

Casa editrice: Edinburgh Univ Pr, 2012

Riassunto

This book looks at a much-debated phenomenon in contemporary cinema: the re-emergence of filmmaking practices (and, by extension, of theoretical approaches) that give precedence to cinema as the medium of the senses.France offers an intriguing case in point here. A specific sense of momentum comes from the release, in close succession, of a series of films that exemplify a characteristic awareness of cinema's sensory impact and transgressive nature: Adieu; A ma soeur; Baise-moi; Beau Travail; La Blessure; La Captive; Dans ma peau; Demonlover; L'Humanité; Flandres; L'Intrus; Les Invisibles; Lady Chatterley; Leçons de ténèbres; Romance; Sombre; Tiresia; Trouble Every Day; Twentynine Palms; Vendredi soir; La Vie nouvelle; Wild Side; Zidane, un portrait du XXIème siècle. These films, amongst others, typify a willingness to explore cinema's unique capacity to move us both viscerally and intellectually. Martine Beugnet focuses on the crucial and fertile overlaps that occur between experimental and mainstream

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Recensione:

It is a testament to her incisive and highly eloquent prose that her core argument is never obscured by dense theorising or hijacked by all-too obvious straining for academic profundity... those who still remain inured to (or unconvinced by) Deluzean film analysis would do well to dip into this book, so lucidly does it present complex arguments. --Ben McCann, University of Adelaide

Beugnet's book offers a compelling example of how film criticism can operate at the junction between perception and understanding, between embodied response and critical reflection... In its articulation of connections between sensation and transgression, and in its linking of film's affective powers to the urgency of political contexts, Cinema and Sensation presents a rich and timely assessment of contemporary French film's engagement with the senses. --Laura McMahon, Girton College, Cambridge

The Senses and Society Cinema and Sensation persuasively argues that the radical styles of recent French films merit new theories and approaches --Hunter Vaughan Film Quarterly

L'autore:

Martine Beugnet is Reader in Film Studies at the University of Edinburgh.

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• Editore: Edinburgh Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0748649360
• ISBN 13: 9780748649365
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 192