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The Tactile Eye: Touch and the Cinematic Experience
Jennifer M. Barker
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Description for The Tactile Eye: Touch and the Cinematic Experience
Paperback. Argues that the experience of cinema can be understood as deeply tactile - a sensuous exchange between film and viewer that goes beyond the visual and aural, gets beneath the skin, and reverberates in the body. This title combines analysis of embodiment and phenomenological film theory to provide a description of cinematic tactility. Num Pages: 208 pages, 15 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: APFA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 14. Weight in Grams: 336.
"The Tactile Eye" expands on phenomenological analysis and film theory in its accessible and beautifully written exploration of the visceral connection between films and their viewers. Jennifer M. Barker argues that the experience of cinema can be understood as deeply tactile - a sensuous exchange between film and viewer that goes beyond the visual and aural, gets beneath the skin, and reverberates in the body. Barker combines analysis of embodiment and phenomenological film theory to provide an expansive description of cinematic tactility. She considers feminist experimental film, early cinema, animation, and horror, as well as classic, modernist, and postmodern cinema; ... Read more
"The Tactile Eye" expands on phenomenological analysis and film theory in its accessible and beautifully written exploration of the visceral connection between films and their viewers. Jennifer M. Barker argues that the experience of cinema can be understood as deeply tactile - a sensuous exchange between film and viewer that goes beyond the visual and aural, gets beneath the skin, and reverberates in the body. Barker combines analysis of embodiment and phenomenological film theory to provide an expansive description of cinematic tactility. She considers feminist experimental film, early cinema, animation, and horror, as well as classic, modernist, and postmodern cinema; ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520258426
SKU
V9780520258426
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About Jennifer M. Barker
Jennifer M. Barker is Assistant Professor of Moving Image Studies in the Department of Communication, Georgia State University.
Reviews for The Tactile Eye: Touch and the Cinematic Experience
"The Tactile Eye brings the cinematic experience to the emergence and convergence of our and the film's bodies." Anthropological Notebooks "Straightforward." The Senses & Society