Radical Embodiment on Film
Time and the Cinematic Body
Radical Embodiment on Film
Time and the Cinematic Body
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Description
This innovative volume demonstrates the embodiment of time to be a vital part of the aesthetic experience of cinema. Analysing a broad range of films including Beasts of the Southern Wild (USA, 2012), Talk to Her (Spain, 2002), Millennium Actress (Japan, 2001), Jab Tak Hai Jaan (India, 2012), and Jinpa (China, 2018), contributors examine key questions of embodied time as represented on screen. They explore how cinematic time can be a way of rethinking the centrality of the individual, of depicting gendered differences, of decentring western perspectives to represent a widened global context, and of expanding what embodiment means in post-human narratives. The volume not only highlights specific discourses of radical, lived experience in film, but also considers how distinctions of race and class, gender and sexuality, migration, religion, and indigeneity affect these depictions of embodied subjectivity.
Contributors:
Emma Ben Ayoun, Louis Bayman, Andrés Buesa, Mariana Cunha, MaoHui Deng, Felipe Espinoza Garrido, Victor Fan, Sahika Erkonan, Joseph Jenner, Nick Jones, Kayla Meyers, Salma Monani, Davina Quinlivan, Francesca Sobande and Pinar Yildiz
Table of Contents
Section I Conceptualising Embodied Time
Chapter 1. Emma Ben Ayoun 'On the Verge'
Chapter 2. Louis Bayman, Sahika Erkonan and Pinar Yildiz 'Fragmented Senses and
Embodied Memory in Atom Egoyan's Remember (2015)'
Chapter 3. Victor Fan 'Jinpa: Embodied Temporalities and Interbeing'
Chapter 4. Andrés Buesa 'Beyond Victimhood: Childhood and Vulnerability in Beasts of the
Southern Wild (2012)'
Section II Embodied Times in an Age of Catastrophe
Chapter 5. Joseph Jenner 'Total White-Out: the Temporality of Extinction in Anthropocene
Filmmaking'
Chapter 6. Salma Monani 'Kinship Time in Indigenous Cinema: Danis Goulet's Night Raiders (2021)'
Chapter 7. Mariana Cunha 'Exhausted Bodies, Crystal Worlds: Indigenous Relationality and
More-than-Human Care in Amazonian Films'
Chapter 8. Kayla Meyers 'Inevitability, Vulnerability and Mortality in the Marvel Cinematic
Multiverse'
Section III Embodied Times and the Medium
Chapter 9. Felipe Espinoza Garrido 'Fucking Awkward: Politics and Poetics of Stand-in Sex
in The Wings of the Dove (1997) and Cha Cha Real Smooth (2022)'
Chapter 10. Nick Jones
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Chapter 11. MaoHui Deng 'Ageing, Animation, and the Temporalities of the Body'
Chapter 12. Francesca Sobande '(Post)racial Bodies of Time(lessness) in The Haunting of
Bly Manor and The Fall of the House of Usher'
Afterword
Product details
| Published | 05 Feb 2026 |
|---|---|
| Format | Hardback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 232 |
| ISBN | 9781350370623 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Illustrations | 49 bw illus |
| Dimensions | 234 x 156 mm |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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