The Skin of the Film: Intercultural Cinema, Embodiment, and the Senses

by Laura U. Marks and Dana Polan

Memories that evoke the physical awareness of touch, smell, and bodily presence can be vital links to home for people living in diaspora from their culture of origin. How can filmmakers working between cultures use cinema, a visual medium, to transmit that physical sense of place and culture? In The Skin of the Film Laura U. Marks offers an answer, building on the theories of Gilles Deleuze and others to explain how and why intercultural cinema...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822323915
• ISBN13: 9780822323914
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"