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Cinema and Sensation: French Film and the Art of Transgression
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Cinema and Sensation: French Film and the Art of Transgression looks at a muchdebated phenomenon in contemporary cinema: the reemergence of filmmaking practices (and, by extension, of theoretical approaches) that give precedence to cinema as the medium of the senses.France offers an intriguing case in point here. A specific sense of momentum comes from the release, in close succession, of a series of films that exemplify a characteristic awareness of cinemas sensory impact and transgressive nature: Adieu; A ma soeur; Baisemoi; Beau Travail; La Blessure; La Captive; Dans ma peau; Demonlover; LHumanit; Flandres; LIntrus; Les Invisibles; Lady Chatterley; Leons de tnbres; Romance; Sombre; Tiresia; Trouble Every Day; Twentynine Palms; Vendredi soir; La Vie nouvelle; Wild Side; and Zidane, un portrait du XXIme sicle. These films, among others, typify a willingness to explore cinemas unique capacity to move us both viscerally and intellectually.Martine Beugnet focuses on the crucial and fertile overlaps that occur between experimental and mainstream cinema. Her book draws on the writings of Deleuze, MerleauPonty, and Bataille, among others, but first and foremost, she develops her arguments from the films themselves, from the comprehensive description of specific sequences, techniques, and motifs that allows us to engage with the works as material events and as thinking processes. In turn, she demonstrates how the films, envisaged as forms of embodied thought, offer alternative ways of approaching todays most burning sociocultural debatesfrom the growing supremacy of technology, to globalization, exile, and exclusion.
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