Walton, Saige,

Cinema's baroque flesh : film, phenomenology and the art of entanglement / Saige Walton. - Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, (c)2016. - 1 online resource (278 pages) : illustrations.

Includes bibliographies and index.

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



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Motion pictures--Aesthetics.


Electronic Books.

PN1995 / .C564 2016