Vital Resonances: Encountering Film with Varda, Haneke and Nancy

Francesca Minnie Hardy

Published by Edinburgh University Press 2021

Vital Resonances

Encountering Film with Varda, Haneke and Nancy

Francesca Minnie Hardy

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474436977

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Establishes resonance as a critical and conceptual paradigm for film analysis

Brings together, for the first time, the work of three of the leading figures in European film: Agnès Varda, Michael Haneke and Jean-Luc Nancy
Establishes resonance as a critical and conceptual paradigm for film analysis by untethering it from sonority and foregrounding how it deals with matter in movement, exploring it philosophically, critically and sensuously
Yokes together discussions of resonance, the image, the body and being from across Nancy’s oeuvre in order to illustrate how they demonstrate a particular propensity for the study of film
Elaborates further the Nancean vernacular, in particular resonance, being, the image, filmer/to film and blood

Since the pioneering work of Vivian Sobchack, Laura U. Marks and Jennifer M. Barker, film studies has increasingly embraced multisensory spectatorship. Such approaches privilege a carnal vision and knowledge of the world. Vital Resonances furthers this work and attunes to what is a foundational, yet overlooked, principle of film studies’ bodily turn: resonance. In keeping with the soft touch that characterises some of this turn’s critical literature – the feel of velvet, the (frustrated) tactility of a sari, the skin of a lover’s body – resonance has been brushed over. Through the work of three leading figures in European cinema, Agnès Varda, Michael Haneke and Jean-Luc Nancy, this book establishes resonance as a critical and conceptual paradigm for film analysis, transforming it from a footnote to the bodily turn and finally placing it at the forefront of our fleshy encounter with film.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
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Film, Resonance and the Senses Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Seeing with Oneself: Regarding Jean-Luc Nancy on Film Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	20
La Pointe Courte: Avoid Contact with the Eyes and Skin, May Cause Irritation Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	58
Time of the Wolf: Denatured Disaster Movie, Underwhelming Apocalypse, or the New Normal? Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	80
Teenage Dreams in The Seventh Continent Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	88
Le Bonheur: Happiness Made and Remade Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	112
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Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 216
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- Other: 12 B/W illustrations
Keywords: Film, Media & Cultural Studies

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Published: April 21, 2022
ISBN: 9781474436977