Cinema and Contact: The Withdrawal of Touch in Nancy, Bresson, Duras and Denis - Rilegato

McMahon, Laura

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ISBN 10: 1907975039 ISBN 13: 9781907975035

Casa editrice: Routledge, 2012

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Drawing on the work of contemporary French philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy, Cinema and Contact investigates the aesthe­tics and politics of touch in the cinema of three of the most prominent and distinctive filmmakers to have emerged in France during the last fifty years: Robert Bresson, Marguerite Duras and Claire Denis. Countering the domi­nant critical account of touch elaborated by recent models of embodied spectatorship, this book argues that cinema offers a privileged space for understanding touch in terms of spacing and withdrawal rather than immediacy and continuity. Such a deconstructive configuration of touch is shown here to have far-reaching implications, inviting an innovative rethinking of politics, aesthetics and theology via the textures of cinema.The first study to bring the thought of Nancy into sustained dialogue with a series of detailed analyses of films, Cinema and Contact also forges new interpretative perspectives on Bresson, Duras and Denis, tracing a compelling two-way exchange between cinema and philosophy.

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• Editore: Routledge
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1907975039
• ISBN 13: 9781907975035
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 188