TY  - GEN
T1  - Cinema and sensation : French film and the art of transgression
A1  - Beugnet, Martine
LA  - English
PP  - Edinburgh
PB  - Edinburgh University Press
YR  - 2007
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_ocn227206613
AB  - 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 cinema. Her book draws on the writings of the likes of Deleuze, Merleau-Ponty and Bataille, but first and foremost, she develops her arguments from the films themselves, from the comprehensive description of specific sequences, techniques and motifs which allows us to engage with the works as material events and as thinking processes. In turn, she demonstrates how the films, envisaged as forms of embodied thought, offer alternative ways of approaching those questions that are at the heart of today's most burning socio-cultural debates: from the growing supremacy of technology, to globalisation, exile and exclusion, these are the issues that appear embedded here in the very texture of images and sounds.
OP  - 192
CN  - PN1995.9.S285 B48 2007eb
SN  - 9780748629176
SN  - 0748629173
SN  - 1281251968
SN  - 9781281251961
SN  - 9786611251963
SN  - 6611251960
SN  - 9780748620425
SN  - 0748620427
KW  - Bibel : Philemonbrief
KW  - Senses and sensation in motion pictures.
KW  - Human body in motion pictures.
KW  - Motion pictures : France.
KW  - Sens et sensations au cinéma.
KW  - Corps humain au cinéma.
KW  - Cinéma : France.
KW  - PERFORMING ARTS : Film & Video : Reference.
KW  - PERFORMING ARTS : Film & Video : History & Criticism.
KW  - Human body in motion pictures
KW  - Motion pictures
KW  - Senses and sensation in motion pictures
KW  - France
KW  - Frankreich
KW  - Electronic books.
ER  -