Memories that evoke the physical awareness of touch, smell, and
bodily presence can be vital links to home for people living in
diaspora from their culture of origin. How can filmmakers working
between cultures use cinema, a visual medium, to transmit that
physical sense of place and culture? In "The Skin of the Film"
Laura U. Marks offers an answer, building on the theories of Gilles
Deleuze and others to explain how and why intercultural cinema
represents embodied experience in a postcolonial, transnational
world.
Much of intercultural cinema, Marks argues, has its origin in
silence, in the gaps left by recorded history. Filmmakers seeking
to represent their native cultures have had to develop new forms of
cinematic expression. Marks offers a theory of "haptic
visuality"--a visuality that functions like the sense of touch by
triggering physical memories of smell, touch, and taste--to explain
the newfound ways in which intercultural cinema engages the viewer
bodily to convey cultural experience and memory. Using close to two
hundred examples of intercultural film and video, she shows how the
image allows viewers to experience cinema as a physical and
multisensory embodiment of culture, not just as a visual
representation of experience. Finally, this book offers a guide to
many hard-to-find works of independent film and video made by Third
World diasporic filmmakers now living in the United States, Great
Britain, and Canada.
"The Skin of the Film" draws on phenomenology, postcolonial and
feminist theory, anthropology, and cognitive science. It will be
essential reading for those interested in film theory, experimental
cinema, the experience of diaspora, and the role of the sensuous in
culture.
General
| Imprint: |
Duke University Press
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Release date: |
2000 |
| First published: |
2000 |
| Authors: |
Laura U. Marks
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| Dimensions: |
235 x 155 x 25mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback
|
| Pages: |
298 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-8223-2391-4 |
| Categories: |
Books >
Arts & Architecture >
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| LSN: |
0-8223-2391-5 |
| Barcode: |
9780822323914 |
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