Corporeality in Early Cinema

Viscera, Skin, and Physical Form

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by Marina Dahlquist, Doron Galili, Jan Olsson and Valentine Robert

Type

Studies

Subject

Silent Cinema

Keywords

early cinema, body

Publishing date

2018

Publisher

Indiana University Press

Collection

Early cinema in review: proceedings of Domitor

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Paperback • 370 pages
6 x 9 inches (15.5 x 23 cm)

ISBN

978-0-253-03365-9

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Book Presentation:
Corporeality in Early Cinema inspires a heightened awareness of the ways in which early film culture, and screen praxes overall are inherently embodied. Contributors argue that on- and offscreen (and in affiliated media and technological constellations), the body consists of flesh and nerves and is not just an abstract spectator or statistical audience entity.
Audience responses from arousal to disgust, from identification to detachment, offer us a means to understand what spectators have always taken away from their cinematic experience. Through theoretical approaches and case studies, scholars offer a variety of models for stimulating historical research on corporeality and cinema by exploring the matrix of screened bodies, machine-made scaffolding, and their connections to the physical bodies in front of the screen.

About the authors:
Marina Dahlquist is Associate Professor of Cinema Studies at Stockholm University. She is editor of Exporting Perilous Pauline: Pearl White and the Serial Film Craze.Jan Olsson is Professor of Cinema Studies and former Head of Department at Stockholm University. He is author of Hitchcock à la Carte.Valentine Robert is Lecturer of Film Studies at the University of Lausanne. She is editor (with Laurent Le Forestier and François Albera) of Le Film sur l'art. Entre histoire de l'art et documentaire de creation.Doron Galili is Research Fellow in the Department of Media Studies at Stockholm University.

Press Reviews:
"...essays that feature cinema technology will prove helpful in any study of how cameras, projectors, screens, and studios have mediated the relationship between the viewing bodies in the audience and the flickering bodies that they—and we—gaze upon."
-Kenneth Garner, TECHNOLOGY & CULTURE

See the publisher website: Indiana University Press