Vital Resonances: Encountering Film with Varda, Haneke and Nancy Francesca Hardy 9781474436960

Establishes resonance as a critical and conceptual paradigm for film analysis Brings together, for the first time, the work of three of the leading figures in European film: Agn s Varda, Michael Haneke and Jean-Luc NancyEstablishes resonance as a critical and conceptual paradigm for film analysis by untethering it from sonority and foregrounding how it deals with matter in movement, exploring it philosophically, critically and sensuously Yokes together discussions of resonance, the image, the body and being from across Nancy's oeuvre in order to illustrate how they demonstrate a particular propensity for the study of film Elaborates further the Nancean vernacular, in particular resonance, being, the image, filmer/to film and blood Since the pioneering work of Vivian Sobchack, Laura U. Marks and Jennifer M. Barker, film studies has increasingly embraced multisensory spectatorship. Such approaches privilege a carnal vision and knowledge of the world. Vital Resonances furthers this work and attunes to what is a foundational, yet overlooked, principle of film studies' bodily turn: resonance. In keeping with the soft touch that characterises some of this turn's critical literature the feel of velvet, the (frustrated) tactility of a sari, the skin of a lover's body resonance has been brushed over. Through the work of three leading figures in European cinema, Agn s Varda, Michael Haneke and Jean-Luc Nancy, this book establishes resonance as a critical and conceptual paradigm for film analysis, transforming it from a footnote to the bodily turn and finally placing it at the forefront of our fleshy encounter with film.

About the Author
Francesca Hardy is Senior Lecturer in the College of Art, Architecture, Design and Humanities, at Nottingham Trent University

Reviews
"This is an extremely insightful and elegant exploration of the work of Nancy, Varda and Haneke which uniquely aligns the specificity of such cinemas in order to stage a brilliant encounter, rethinking notions of embodied spectatorship and its varying ethics of viewing pleasure." -Davina Quinlivan, Kingston University



Book Information
ISBN 9781474436960
Author Francesca Hardy
Format Paperback
Imprint Edinburgh University Press
Publisher Edinburgh University Press