The Skin of the Film: Intercultural Cinema, Embodiment, and the Senses
<p>by Laura U. Marks. - Durham, North Carolina ; London : Duke University Press, 2000. - 300 p. : ill. ; 23,5 cm <br>Includes bibliographical references, filmography, videography and index </p>
ISBN: 9780822323914
Memories that evoke the physical awareness of touch, smell, and bodily presence can be vital links to home for people living in diaspora from their culture of origin. How can filmmakers working between cultures use cinema, a visual medium, to transmit that physical sense of place and culture? Filmmakers seeking to represent their native cultures have had to develop new forms of cinematic expression. Marks offers a theory of ‘haptic visuality'- a visuality that functions like the sense of touch by triggering physical memories of smell, touch, and taste - to explain the newfound ways in which intercultural cinema engages the viewer bodily to convey cultural experience and memory. The Skin of the Film draws on phenomenology, postcolonial and feminist theory, anthropology, and cognitive science.
