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

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 c...

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Autor principal: Walton, Saige (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2016]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover; Table of contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Flesh and its Reversibility; Defining the Baroque; 'Good Looking'; A Cinema of Baroque Flesh; 1. Flesh, Cinema and the Baroque: The Aesthetics of Reversibility; Baroque Vision and Painting the Flesh; Baroque Flesh; Analogous Embodiments: The Film's Body; Baroque Vision and Cinema; Summation: Face to Face-Feeling Baroque Deixis; 2. Knots of Sensation: Co-Extensive Space and a Cinema of the Passions; Synaesthesia, Phenomenology, and the Senses; Cinesthesia and the Bel Composto.
  • A Passionate Baroque: Emotion, Excess, and Co-Extensive SpaceAssault and Absorption: Cruel Baroque; Summation: Beside Oneself; 3. Baroque Skin/Semiotics; Chiasm: Language and Experience; Baroque Poetic Language and the Seventeenth-Century Infinite; Baroque Luxury; Skin-Deep: Baroque Texturology; Tickles: Baroque Wit; Summation: Cine-Mimesis; 4. One Hand Films the Other: Baroque Haptics; Touching-Touched; Haptic Visuality and the Baroque; Baroque Haptics and Cinema; Analogical Assemblages: Baroque Databases; Summation: TEXXTURE; Conclusion: Or the Baroque 'Beauty of the Act'; Notes.