Intimacy in Cinema: Critical Essays on English Language Films

by Isabelle Schmitt-Pitiot and David Roche

Though intimacy has been a wide concern in the humanities, it has received little critical attention in film studies. This collection of new 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 by binaries--inside and outside, surface and depth, public and private, self and other--intimacy, because it implies sharing, calls into...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0786479248
• ISBN13: 9780786479245
• Release Date: October 2014
• Publisher: McFarland & Company
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher