Cinema and sensation : French film and the art of transgression

The Resource Cinema and sensation : French film and the art of transgression
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Cinema and sensation : French film and the art of transgression
Title remainder
French film and the art of transgression
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Martine Beugnet
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Language
eng
Summary
This book looks at a much-debated phenomenon in contemporary cinema: the re-emergence of filmmaking practices (and, by extension, of theoretical approaches) that give precedence to cinema as the medium of the senses. France offers an intriguing case in point here. A specific sense of momentum comes from the release, in close succession, of a series of films that exemplify a characteristic awareness of cinema's sensory impact and transgressive nature: Adieu; A ma soeur; Baise-moi; Beau Travail; La Blessure; La Captive; Dans ma peau; Demonlover; L'HumanitÃ♭; Flandres; L'Intrus; Les Invisibles; Lady Chatterley; LeÃʹons de tÃ♭n÷bres; Romance; Sombre; Tiresia; Trouble Every Day; Twentynine Palms; Vendredi soir; La Vie nouvelle; Wild Side; Zidane, un portrait du XXI÷me si÷cle. These films, amongst others, typify a willingness to explore cinema's unique capacity to move us both viscerally and intellectually. Martine Beugnet focuses on the crucial and fertile overlaps that occur between experimental and mainstream cinema. Her book draws on the writings of the likes of Deleuze, Merleau-Ponty and Bataille, but first and foremost, she develops her arguments from the films themselves, from the comprehensive description of specific sequences, techniques and motifs which allows us to engage with the works as material events and as thinking processes. In turn, she demonstrates how the films, envisaged as forms of embodied thought, offer alternative ways of approaching those questions that are at the heart of today's most burning socio-cultural debates: from the growing supremacy of technology, to globalisation, exile and exclusion, these are the issues that appear embedded here in the very texture of images and sounds
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N$T
Dewey number
791.430944
Index
index present
Language note
English
LC call number
PN1995.9.S285
LC item number
B48 2007eb
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
  • dictionaries
  • bibliography
  • filmographies
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