The Tactile Eye: Touch and the Cinematic Experience Jennifer M. Barker 9780520258426

"The Tactile Eye" expands on phenomenological analysis and film theory in its accessible and beautifully written exploration of the visceral connection between films and their viewers. Jennifer M. Barker argues that the experience of cinema can be understood as deeply tactile - a sensuous exchange between film and viewer that goes beyond the visual and aural, gets beneath the skin, and reverberates in the body. Barker combines analysis of embodiment and phenomenological film theory to provide an expansive description of cinematic tactility. She considers feminist experimental film, early cinema, animation, and horror, as well as classic, modernist, and postmodern cinema; films from ten national cinemas; and, work by Chuck Jones, Buster Keaton, the Quay Brothers, Satyajit Ray, Carolee Schneemann, and Tom Tykwer, among others.

About the Author
Jennifer M. Barker is Assistant Professor of Moving Image Studies in the Department of Communication, Georgia State University.

Reviews
"The Tactile Eye brings the cinematic experience to the emergence and convergence of our and the film's bodies." Anthropological Notebooks "Straightforward." The Senses & Society


Awards
Short-listed for And/Or Book Awards: Best Moving Image Book 2010.



Book Information
ISBN 9780520258426
Author Jennifer M. Barker
Format Paperback
Page Count 208
Imprint University of California Press
Publisher University of California Press
Weight(grams) 272g
Dimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 15mm