The Skin of the Film - Intercultural Cinema, Embodiment, and the Senses

Informationen zum Autor Laura U. Marks is an independent critic and curator, as well as Assistant Professor of Film Studies at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. Klappentext "Marks's nuanced reading of a large number of films and videos is based on her deep engagement with the politics of place and displacement that drives the films. This book is a delightful read."--Hamid Naficy, Rice University Zusammenfassung How can filmmakers working between cultures use cinema! a visual medium! to transmit that physical sense of place and culture? This book 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgements Introduction 1. The Memory of Images 2. The Memory of Things 3. The Memory of Touch 4. The Memory of the Senses Conclusion: The Portable Sensorium Notes Bibliography Filmography/Videography Index

Product details

• Authors: Laura U. Marks, Marks, Laura Marks, Laura U Marks, Laura U. Marks
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.01.2000
• EAN: 9780822323914
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-2391-4
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 231 mm x 23 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Non-fiction book > Music, film, theatre; Fernsehen, TV