Intimacy in cinema : critical essays on English language films /
Though intimacy has been a wide concern in the humanities, it has received little critical attention in film studies. This collection of essays investigates both the potential intimacy of cinema as a medium and the possibility of a cinema of intimacy where it is least expected. As a notion defined b...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Jefferson, North Carolina :
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers,
2014
Jefferson, North Carolina : 2014 Jefferson, North Carolina : [2014] |
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Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments; "I feel different inside"; Touch and Gesture; Exposing and Threatening Female Intimacy and Sexuality; Fictions of Intimacy and the Intimacy of Fiction; The Impossible Sex Life of Couples in the Screwball Comedy; Intimacy Shared in Laughter and Tears; The Intimate Gaze; Shooting Stars and Poet Friends in My Bedroom; Public Confessions in American Revolution 2; The Limits of Hypermasculinity; "I've got you under my skin"; Filming Fantasy, Imitating the Intimate in Eyes Wide Shut; J. Edgar; Intrusions of the Other; Hidden Worlds and Unspoken Desires
- "Extimacy" and Embodiment in Hunger and ShameKeira's Kiss; Melancholy, Empathy and Animated Bodies; About the Contributors; List of Names and Terms