The Tactile Eye: Touch and the Cinematic Experience
Jennifer M Barker
(Author)
Description
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; films from ten national cinemas; and work by Chuck Jones, Buster Keaton, the Quay Brothers, Satyajit Ray, Carolee Schneemann, and Tom Tykwer, among others.Product Details
Price
$41.94
Publisher
University of California Press
Publish Date
May 01, 2009
Pages
196
Dimensions
5.9 X 0.6 X 8.9 inches | 0.55 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9780520258426
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About the Author
Jennifer M. Barker is Assistant Professor of Moving Image Studies in the Department of Communication, Georgia State University.
Reviews
"The Tactile Eye brings the cinematic experience to the emergence and convergence of our and the film's bodies."--Anthropological Notebooks (11/02/2010)
"Straightforward."--The Senses & Society (06/10/2011)
"Straightforward."--The Senses & Society (06/10/2011)