Blur

Technological failure or essential element of film aesthetics? From auteur cinema to horror to experimental film, Martine Beugnet shows the powerful effects blur can produce.

About the author

Martine Beugnet (Author)

Martine Beugnet is Professor in Visual Studies at the Université Paris Cité and a member of ECHELLES, a CNRS research institute. In English, she is the author of Cinema and Sensation (Edinburgh, 2007, 2012) and Claire Denis (Manchester, 2004), coauthor of Proust at the Movies (Ashgate and Routledge, 2005), and coeditor of Indefinite Visions: Cinema and the Attractions of Uncertainty (Edinburgh, 2017).

Lindsay Turner (Translator)

Lindsay Turner is Associate Professor of English and Creative Writing at Case Western Reserve University. She is the author of two collections of poetry and has translated books by Stéphane Bouquet, Éric Baratay, Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Anne Dufourmantelle, Richard Rechtman, Ryoko Sekiguchi, and others.

Product details

• Authors: Martine Beugnet
• Assisted by: Lindsay Turner (Translation)
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 01.06.2026
• EAN: 9781531511746
• ISBN: 978-1-5315-1174-6
• No. of pages: 144
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet