Cinema's Baroque Flesh : : Film, Phenomenology and the Art of Entanglement / / Saige Walton.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter AUP eBook Package 2016-2018
• VerfasserIn: Walton, Saige,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2016]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Film Culture in Transition
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (278 p.) :; 10 halftones
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Table of contents --; Acknowledgements --; Introduction --; 1. Flesh, Cinema and the Baroque: The Aesthetics of Reversibility --; 2. Knots of Sensation: Co-Extensive Space and a Cinema of the Passions --; 3. Baroque Skin/Semiotics --; 4. One Hand Films the Other: Baroque Haptics --; Conclusion: Or the Baroque 'Beauty of the Act' --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Filmography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9789048528493; 9783110667318; 9783110606447; 9783110662931
• DOI: 10.1515/9789048528493?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Saige Walton.

In Cinema's Baroque Flesh, Saige Walton draws on the philosophy of Maurice Merleau-Ponty to argue for a distinct aesthetic category of film and a unique cinema of the senses: baroque cinema. Combining media archaeological work with art history, phenomenology, and film studies, the book offers close analyses of a range of historic baroque artworks and films, including Caché, Strange Days, the films of Buster Keaton, and many more. Walton pursues previously unexplored connections between film, the baroque, and the body, opening up new avenues of embodied film theory that can make room for structure, signification, and thought, as well as the aesthetics of sensation.