TY - BOOK ID - 37258682 TI - Corporeality in early cinema : viscera, skin, and physical form AU - Dahlquist, Marina AU - Galili, Doron AU - Olsson, Jan AU - Robert, Valentine PY - 2018 SN - 9780253033659 9780253033666 0253033667 9780253033680 0253033683 PB - Bloomington, Ind. Indiana University Press DB - UniCat KW - Human body in motion pictures. KW - Motion pictures KW - Corps humain KW - History KW - Au cinéma KW - Film KW - Au cinéma. KW - Au cinéma. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:37258682 AB - "Corporeality in Early Cinema inspires a heightened awareness of the ways in which early film culture, and screen praxes overall are inherently embodied. Contributors argue that on and off screen (and in affiliated media and technological constellations), the body consists of flesh and nerves and is not just an abstract spectator or statistical audience entity. Audience responses from arousal to disgust, from identification to detachment, offer us a means to understand what spectators took and still take away from their cinematic experience. Through theoretical approaches and case studies, scholars offer a variety of models for stimulating historical research on corporeality and cinema by exploring the matrix of screened bodies, machine-made scaffolding, and their connections to the physical bodies in front of the screen"-- ER -