Martine Beugnet
Cinema and Sensation
- ISBN 13:
- 9780748649365
- author:
- Martine Beugnet
- format:
- Paperback
- publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2012
- Pages:
- 208
- Dimensions:
- 23.11 x 1.02 x 15.49 centimetres
- Genre:
- History, Europe, France,
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 10 working days
Description
Cinema and Sensation: French Film and the Art of Transgression by Martine Beugnet explores the resurgence of filmmaking practices that prioritize cinema as a medium for sensory experience. This phenomenon is exemplified in a series of French films released in close succession, which showcase a characteristic awareness of cinema's impact on the senses and its transgressive nature. Beugnet examines the overlaps between experimental and mainstream cinema, drawing on the works of philosophers such as Deleuze, Merleau-Ponty, and Bataille. She analyzes specific sequences, techniques, and motifs in these films to demonstrate how they offer alternative ways of approaching pressing socio-cultural debates, including the impact of technology, globalization, exile, and exclusion. By engaging with the films as material events and thinking processes, Beugnet reveals new insights into the role of cinema in contemporary culture.
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