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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, Agns 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.

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9781474436960

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""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

"""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"

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

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