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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.

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"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

Table of Contents
List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Eye Contact Tactility Film's Body Moving Pictures Touch and Go 1. Skin Textural Analysis Film's Skin Eroticism Pleasure Horror History Mon Amour 2. Musculature Through a Glass Deftly Empathy Here and There A Tenuous Grasp Apprehension 3. Viscera Heart-stopping Hiccups La Petite Mort Child's Play Conclusion: Inspiration Breathtaking The Wind in the Trees Everywhere and Always The Big Swallow Notes Bibliography Index

The Tactile Eye

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      Publisher: University of California Press
      Publication Date: 27/05/2009
      ISBN13: 9780520258426, 978-0520258426
      ISBN10: 520258428
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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.

      Trade Review
      "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

      Table of Contents
      List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Eye Contact Tactility Film's Body Moving Pictures Touch and Go 1. Skin Textural Analysis Film's Skin Eroticism Pleasure Horror History Mon Amour 2. Musculature Through a Glass Deftly Empathy Here and There A Tenuous Grasp Apprehension 3. Viscera Heart-stopping Hiccups La Petite Mort Child's Play Conclusion: Inspiration Breathtaking The Wind in the Trees Everywhere and Always The Big Swallow Notes Bibliography Index

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