Cinema's baroque flesh : film, phenomenology and the art of entanglement
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Cinema's baroque flesh : film, phenomenology and the art of entanglement
Amsterdam University Press , Distributed in the US and Canada by the University of Chicago Press, c2016
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-269), filmography (p. [271]) and index
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Description
In Cinema's Baroque Flesh, Saige Walton draws on the philosophy of Maurice Merleau-Ponty to argue for a distinct aesthetic category of film and a unique cinema of the senses: baroque cinema. Combining media archaeological work with art history, phenomenology, and film studies, the book offers close analyses of a range of historic baroque artworks and films, including Cache, Strange Days, the films of Buster Keaton, and many more. Walton pursues previously unexplored connections between film, the baroque, and the body, opening up new avenues of embodied film theory that can make room for structure, signification, and thought, as well as the aesthetics of sensation.
Table of Contents
Introduction Chapter 1 Flesh, Cinema and the Baroque: The Aesthetics of Reversibility Chapter 2 Knots of Sensation: Co-Extensive Space and a Cinema of the Passions Chapter 3 Baroque Skin/Semiotics Chapter 4 One Hand Films the Other: Towards a Baroque Haptics Conclusion: Or the Baroque 'Beauty of the Act' Bibliography Filmography Endnotes
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