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Precarious Intimacies - The Politics of Touch in Contemporary Western European Cinema (Hardcover)
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Precarious Intimacies - The Politics of Touch in Contemporary Western European Cinema (Hardcover)
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Drawing on and responding to the writings of theorists such as
Judith Butler, Sarah Ahmed, Lauren Berlant, and Lisa Lowe, this
book proposes the notion of "precarious intimacies" to navigate a
dilemma: how to recognize, affirm, and value love, touch, and care
while challenging the racialized and gendered politics in which
they are embedded. Twenty-first-century Europe is undergoing
dramatic political and economic transformations that produce new
forms of transnational contact as well as new regimes of exclusion
and economic precarity. These political and economic shifts both
circumscribe and enable new possibilities for intimacy. Many
European films of the last two decades depict experiences of
political and economic vulnerability in narratives of precarious
intimacies. In these films, stories of intimacy, sex, love, and
friendship are embedded in violence and exclusion, but, as Maria
Stehle and Beverly Weber show, the politics of touch and connection
also offers avenues to theorize forms of attention and affection
that challenge exclusive notions of race, citizenship, and
belonging. Precarious Intimacies examines the aesthetic strategies
that respond to this tension and proposes a politics of
interpretation that identifies the potential and possibility of
intimacy.
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