Martine Beugnet is Reader in Film Studies at the University of Edinburgh, where she heads the Film Studies Section.
This book provides a useful approach to this group of films, as well as a skilful summation of a trend in recent theory.’ Maureen Turim, Professor of English and Film and Media Studies, University of Florida Marks, School for the Contemporary Arts, Simon Fraser University ‘Starting with a fascinating list of recent Francophone films, Beugnet brings Deleuzian and other French theory, along with references to recent Anglophone analyses of sensation, to bear on how this cinema creates “deeply sensual, synaesthetic effect of the film image and sound-track”. With an exquisite attention to important new works of French cinema, this book restores cinema’s qualities of being, and becoming, in the world.’ Laura U. ‘Cinema and Sensation is a powerful account of the cinema of our time, a time in which thought, and hope, can only arise from a compassionate and unflinching immersion in reality.
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