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## Provides the first consideration of sound and the body in contemporary European art cinema * Offers detailed analysis of the underexplored dimension of sound in the work of some of the best-known contemporary European art film directors * Provides a stimulating contribution to theories of cinematic spectatorship showing how sound, noise and listening can rethink all aspects of the filmic experience * Explores the conceptualisation of cinema as a __resonant body__ * Considers the sonic dimensions of cinema alongside prescient current debates in European film and criticism about the body, migration and exile, as well as anthropocentrism and anthropocentric modes of representation What does it mean to exist, in our experience of cinema, according to listening? How do sound and ‘noise’ reconfigure relations between spectators and screens, and by extension, spectators and their worlds? How do films raise questions about the ethics and politics of listening to different bodies? __Resonant Bodies in Contemporary European Art Cinema__ answers these questions through an analysis of films by Catherine Breillat, Gaspar Noé, Tony Gatlif, Arnaud des Pallières, Lars von Trier and Peter Strick

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Author

Emilija Talijan

Publisher

Edinburgh University Press

Published

2022

Language

EN

ISBN

9781474483476

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Philosophy, Performing Arts