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Cinema and Contact
Laura McMahon
其他書名
The Withdrawal of Touch in Nancy, Bresson, Duras and Denis
出版Routledge, 2017-07-05
主題Foreign Language Study / GeneralLanguage Arts & Disciplines / General
ISBN13515718699781351571869
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=cigxDwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋Drawing on the work of contemporary French philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy, Cinema and Contact investigates the aesthe-tics and politics of touch in the cinema of three of the most prominent and distinctive filmmakers to have emerged in France during the last fifty years: Robert Bresson, Marguerite Duras and Claire Denis. Countering the domi-nant critical account of touch elaborated by recent models of embodied spectatorship, this book argues that cinema offers a privileged space for understanding touch in terms of spacing and withdrawal rather than immediacy and continuity. Such a deconstructive configuration of touch is shown here to have far-reaching implications, inviting an innovative rethinking of politics, aesthetics and theology via the textures of cinema. The first study to bring the thought of Nancy into sustained dialogue with a series of detailed analyses of films, Cinema and Contact also forges new interpretative perspectives on Bresson, Duras and Denis, tracing a compelling two-way exchange between cinema and philosophy.