The Skin Of The Film by Howard Marks
Intercultural Cinema, Embodiment, and the Senses
An influential study of intercultural cinema that argues for a tactile, sensuous mode of looking—often called haptic visuality—through which films convey memory, migration, and embodied experience beyond purely optical seeing. Through close readings of experimental, diasporic, and Middle Eastern works, it shows how images can function like skin, storing traces of history and personal archives, and inviting viewers into intimate encounters with other cultures. Drawing on phenomenology, media archaeology, and postcolonial theory, it reframes film and video as material, affective practices that link sensory perception with ethics and cultural memory.
- Published
- 2000
- Nationality
- Canadian
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- Pages
- 300-400
- Original Language
- English
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