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Cinema and Sensation - French Film and the Art of Transgression (Paperback)
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Cinema and Sensation - French Film and the Art of Transgression (Paperback)
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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'Humanite;
Flandres; L'Intrus; Les Invisibles; Lady Chatterley; Lecons de
tenebres; Romance; Sombre; Tiresia; Trouble Every Day; Twentynine
Palms; Vendredi soir; La Vie nouvelle; Wild Side; Zidane, un
portrait du XXIeme siecle. 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.
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