Description
This innovative volume demonstrates the embodiment of time to be a vital part of the aesthetic experience of cinema. Analysing a broad range of films including Beasts of the Southern Wild (USA, 2012), Talk to Her (Spain, 2002), Millennium Actress (Japan, 2001), Jab Tak Hai Jaan (India, 2012), and Jinpa (China, 2018), contributors examine key questions of embodied time as represented on screen. They explore how cinematic time can be a way of rethinking the centrality of the individual, of depicting gendered differences, of decentring western perspectives to represent a widened global context, and of expanding what embodiment means in post-human narratives. The volume not only highlights specific discourses of radical, lived experience in film, but also considers how distinctions of race and class, gender and sexuality, migration, religion, and indigeneity affect these depictions of embodied subjectivity.
Contributors:
Emma Ben Ayoun, Louis Bayman, Andres Buesa, Mariana Cunha, MaoHui Deng, Felipe Espinoza Garrido, Victor Fan, Sahika Erkonan, Joseph Jenner, Nick Jones, Kayla Meyers, Salma Monani, Davina Quinlivan, Francesca Sobande and Pinar Yildiz
This volume reconceptualises film as an expression of embodied time; drawing specific attention to key moments of change and transformation so as to explore how films operate as dynamic carriers of social meaning.
About the Author
Louis Bayman is Associate Professor of Film Studies at the University of Southampton, UK. He is author of The Operatic and the Everyday in Postwar Italian Film Melodrama (2014) and co-editor of Folk Horror on Film: Return of the British Repressed (2023).
Davina Quinlivan is a researcher, writer and curator, currently teaching at the University of Exeter, UK. She is author of Shalimar: A Story of Place and Migration (2022) and Filming the Body in Crisis: Trauma, Healing and Hopefulness (2015).
Reviews
In this diverse and thoughtfully curated collection, Bayman and Quinlivan have brought together a set of original and provocative chapters that delve deeply into how time is imbricated into our experience of cinema. Challenging the reader to examine what we may take for granted, Radical Embodiment demonstrates how the concept of embodied time is a way to focus on film's political, environmental, and philosophical possibilities. A genuinely valuable evolution of film thinking on time and the body. -- Lucy Bolton, Professor of Film Philosophy, Queen Mary University of London, UK
Book Information
ISBN 9781350370623
Author Louis Bayman
Format Hardback
Page Count 232
Imprint Bloomsbury Academic
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
