The Sensory Child of Contemporary Cinema: Sight, Sound, Touch (1) (Film Culture in Transition)

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Synopsis
The Sensory Child: Sight, Sound, Touch examines a poetic film form evident in contemporary cinema that seems intent on capturing the textures, the materials, and the sensations of childhood. These films foreground the child’s point of view, construct a child’s gaze, and mobilise an aesthetic that evokes a sensory recollection of childhood. This complex arrangement of aesthetic modes is intended to address the adult spectator bodily, and evoke the vivid, sensory memories of childhood. The Sensory Child rethinks a gap in contemporary film theory created by a seeming hiatus between psychoanalytic and phenomenological approaches to the cinema. The book examines key instances of this aesthetic of childhood in the films Aftersun (2022), The Fits (2015), What Maisie Knew (2013), and Moonlight (2016). May argues that psychoanalytic theory can elucidate the significance of such tactile moments, offering insight into the meaning evoked for the spectator by this sensory, poetic film form.
Copyright:
2026

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Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
206 Pages
ISBN-13:
9781040836637
Related ISBNs:
9781003707660, 9789048562336, 9781040839478
Publisher:
Taylor & Francis
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Copyrighted By:
N. May / Taylor & Francis Group
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
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No
Categories:
Entertainment, Nonfiction, Art and Architecture, Psychology, Social Studies
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Bookshare Staff
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