The Place of Breath in Cinema / / Davina Quinlivan.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
• VerfasserIn: Quinlivan, Davina,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (232 p.) :; 12 B/W illustrations

How can the cinema articulate the interstices between visibility and invisibility, and how are such notions of absence and the unseen implicated in the film experience? This study considers the locus of the breathing body in the film experience and its implications for the study of embodiment in film and sensuous spectatorship. Quinlivan puts forward a mode of critical engagement with film shaped by the foregrounding of the human body in the filmic diegesis and the viewing experience. The book's foregrounding of the human body as an, importantly, breathing body in film, 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.Key features: Case studies are taken from the work of major directors, including David Cronenberg, Atom Egoyan and Lars von TrierKey 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)Makes a notable contribution to the study of film sound and haptic perception

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Troubling Invisibility and the Breathing Body -- 1. The Haptic Logic of a Breathing Body: Elemental Topographies of Memory and Loss -- 2. An ‘Air in Flesh’: An Anatomy of Breath, Carnality and Transcendence: The Breathing Bodies of David Cronenberg -- 3. Towards Inter-subjectivities of Breath and the Breathing Film Viewer: Lars von Trier’s ‘Gold Heart’ Trilogy -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Filmography -- Index