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Develops an account of non-normative feminist cinematic ethics and a fresh methodological approach to film-philosophy.

Motion pictures --- Feminist ethics. --- Moral and ethical aspects. --- Denis, Claire, --- Lévinas, Emmanuel --- Nancy, Jean-Luc --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Ethics --- Feminism --- Moral and ethical aspects --- Lévinas, E. --- Leṿinas, ʻImanuʼel --- Levinas, Emani︠u︡el --- לוינס׳ עמנואל --- לוינס, עמנואל --- Līfīnās, Īmānwāl --- ليفيناس، إيمانوال --- Professional ethics. Deontology --- Film --- Denis, Claire --- Levinas, Emmanuel --- Lévinas, Emmanuel --- Nancy, Jean-Luc. --- Levinas, Emmanuel.

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This book looks at a much-debated phenomenon in contemporary cinema: the re-emergence 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 cinema's sensory impact and transgressive nature: Adieu; A ma soeur; Baise-moi; Beau Travail; La Blessure; La Captive; Dans ma peau; Demonlover; L'Humanité; Flandres; L'Intrus; Les Invisibles; Lady Chatterley; Leçons de ténèbres; Romance; Sombre; Tiresia; Trouble Every Day; Twentynine Palms; Vendredi soir; La Vie nouvelle; Wild Side; Zidane, un portrait du XXIème siècle. These films, amongst others, typify a willingness to explore cinema's 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 the likes of Deleuze, Merleau-Ponty and Bataille, but first and foremost, she develops her arguments from the films themselves, from the comprehensive description of specific sequences, techniques and motifs which 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 those questions that are at the heart of today's most burning socio-cultural debates: from the growing supremacy of technology, to globalisation, exile and exclusion, these are the issues that appear embedded here in the very texture of images and sounds.

film --- filmtheorie --- sensoriële cinema --- zintuiglijkheid --- eenentwintigste eeuw --- twintigste eeuw --- Grandrieux Philippe --- Dieutre Vincent --- Denis Claire --- Resnais Alain --- Assayas Olivier --- Bonello Bertrand --- Carax Leo --- Lifschitz Sébastien --- Akerman Chantal --- Frankrijk --- filmgeschiedenis --- 791.41 --- Senses and sensation in motion pictures. --- Human body in motion pictures. --- Motion pictures --- Body, Human, in motion pictures