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How does film affect the way we understand crises of the body and
mind and how does it manifest other kinds of crises levelled at the
spectator? This book offers vital scholarly analysis of the
embodied nature of film viewing and the ways in which film deals
with the question of loss, the healing body and its material
registering of trauma.
How does film affect the way we understand crises of the body and
mind and how does it manifest other kinds of crises levelled at the
spectator? This book offers vital scholarly analysis of the
embodied nature of film viewing and the ways in which film deals
with the question of loss, the healing body and its material
registering of trauma.
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Shalimar (Hardcover)
Davina Quinlivan
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In her mid-twenties, shortly before her father's death, Davina
Quinlivan moved from her family home in west London to begin a
transitory life in the countryside: here she felt restless and
rootless, stuck between Deep England and the technicolour memories
of her family's migration story. Beginning in colonial India and
Burma, from the indigenous tribes from which the women in
Quinlivan's family are descended, and reaching the streets of
Southall and Ealing, the stories of her ancestors persisted in the
tales, the language, the cooking and culture of her family.
Quinlivan conjures a place between continents and worlds in a
lyrical debut of migration, and homecoming, marking the arrival of
an exceptional new voice.
This is an exploration of the figuring of absence in film. This
study considers the placement of the breathing body in the film
experience and its implications for the study of embodiment in film
and sensuous spectatorship. Davina Quinlivan shapes her engagement
with film by the foregrounding of the human body in the filmic
diegesis and the viewing experience. This emphasis on the human
body as an breathing body coupled with its fresh engagement with
continental philosophy, Post-Structuralist Film Theory and
Contemporary Western Cinema, makes a unique and valuable
contribution to the field. Case studies are taken from the work of
major directors, including Cronenberg and von Trier. Key concepts
explored are filmic space (air and the elemental in film),
corporeality (bodies on screen and the film itself as a breathing
body) and inter-subjectivity (community and sociality). It makes a
notable contribution to the study of film sound and haptic
perception.
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