Corporeality in Early Cinema: Viscera, Skin, and Physical Form

Corporeality in Early Cinema: Viscera, Skin, and Physical Form
ISBN-10
0253033683
ISBN-13
9780253033680
Category
Performing Arts
Pages
370
Language
English
Published
2018-10-16
Publisher
Indiana University Press
Authors
Jan Olsson, Marina Dahlquist, Doron Galili

Description

Corporeality in Early Cinema inspires a heightened awareness of the ways in which early film culture, and screen praxes overall are inherently embodied. Contributors argue that on- and offscreen (and in affiliated media and technological constellations), the body consists of flesh and nerves and is not just an abstract spectator or statistical audience entity. Audience responses from arousal to disgust, from identification to detachment, offer us a means to understand what spectators have always taken away from their cinematic experience. Through theoretical approaches and case studies, scholars offer a variety of models for stimulating historical research on corporeality and cinema by exploring the matrix of screened bodies, machine-made scaffolding, and their connections to the physical bodies in front of the screen.

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