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Author McMahon, Laura

Title Cinema and Contact : the Withdrawal of Touch in Nancy, Bresson, Duras and Denis
Published Leeds : Taylor and Francis, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (189 pages)
Contents Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 Jean-Luc Nancy: Co-Exposure, Technicity, Cinema; Ontology of Touch: Exposure, Being-with and Film; Film as being-with; From Christian Flesh to Technics (with Derrida); Technics: body and film; Coming-to-presence, Evidence and the Real; Cinema as evidence; 2 Robert Bresson: A Cinematography of Contact; Pickpocket: Expropriation and the Technicity of Touch; Impalpable touch; Hands and soul; Intervals of technicity; Between bodies
Au hasard Balthazar: The Transimmanence of Being-in-the-worldWorld as contact; Tableaux of touch; Being-with-animals; Animalization of the human; Mouchette: Finitude, Contingency and the Real; Contingency and contact; Stuck in the mud; Desiring contact; From viscosity to fluidity; 3 Marguerite Duras: Back to Zero, or a Politics of Being-with; Détruire dit-elle: Love, Unworkability and Capital Destruction; Unworking identity; In the realm of the tactile; India Song: Plurality, Asymmetry and the Unavowable; Unavowable community; Negative community; The impossibility of fusion
Le Navire Night and Agatha et les lectures illimitées: Voice, Blindness and the Impossibility of TouchWithout images; Textures of the voice; Flesh and stone; The impossible relation; Between two; 4 Claire Denis: Commonalities in Close-up; Beau Travail: A-religion, Being-with, Opening; Operative community; Exposure and being-with; A-religion; Trouble Every Day: The Ecstatic Limit of Exposure; Carnal bodies; The destruction of touch; Icon of ferocity; Beyond redemption; L'Intrus: Hybridity, Ecotechnics, Resurrection; Identity and intrusion; Transplanting text to film; Filiation and ecotechnics
Fragments of resurrectionA theologico-politics of contact; Conclusion; Bibliography; Filmography; Index
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Subject Nancy, Jean-Luc
Bresson, Robert -- Criticism and interpretation
SUBJECT Bresson, Robert fast
Nancy, Jean-Luc fast
Subject Touch in motion pictures.
Touch in motion pictures
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781351571876
1351571877