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Radical Embodiment on Film
Time and the Cinematic Body
Radical Embodiment on Film
Time and the Cinematic Body
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Through a re-examination of the theoretical study of time and embodiment, this collection proposes an innovative new discourse in which to situate film.
Each of its essays, written by a host of renowned international scholars, demonstrate the embodiment of time to be a vital part of the aesthetic experience of cinema. Analysing a broad range of films such as 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), they each draw specific attention to moments of change and transformation, so as to explore how films operate as dynamic carriers of social meaning.
Contributors examine key questions of embodied time as represented on screen; as a way of rethinking the centrality of the individual, of depicting gendered differences, of decentring western perspectives to consider embodied time in a widened global context, and as a way of expanding what embodiment means in post-human narratives. In doing so, this study 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.
Table of Contents
1. Beyond Victimhood: Childhood and Vulnerability in Contemporary Cinema - Andrés Buesa (University of Zaragoza, Spain)
2. On the Verge - Emma Ben Ayoun (University of Southern California, USA)
3. Ageing, Cinema, and the Hesitant Weight of Time - MaoHui Deng (University of Manchester, UK)
4. Cinema, Senses, Ethics: A Political and Artistic Analysis of Forgetting - Louis Bayman (University of Southampton, UK), Sahika Erkonan (Loughborough University, UK) and Pinar Yildiz (Berlin Freie University, Germany)
Section II: Embodying gendered time
5. From She's All That to He's All That: Representing and reimagining time, beauty ideals, and gendered body norms - Francesca Sobande (Cardiff University, UK)
6. Moderating Glamour: Class, Race and the Femme Fatale in Consumer Culture - Katherine Farrimond (University of Sussex, UK)
7. Queer Visibility, Trans History and the Film Career of Robert Allen - Chris O'Rourke (University of Lincoln, UK)
Section III: Embodying time in a global context
8. Mobility, Belonging and Bollywood's London in Jab Tak Hai Jaan (Yash Chopra, 2012) - Kulraj Phullar (independent scholar, UK)
9. Buddhism as a technology of recognition: Pema Tseden's Jinpa - Victor Fan (King's College, London, UK)
10. Indigenous Cinema Times: Embodying Seven Generations - . Salma Monani (Gettysburg College, Pennsylvania, USA)
Section IV: Embodying time beyond the Human
11. Exhausted Bodies, Exhausted Worlds: Trauma, Illness and Temporalities of Nature in Amazonian Films - Mariana Cunha (Federal University of Pernambuco/UFPE/CAPES, Brazil)
12. Total White-Out: The Temporality of Extinction in Anthropocene Filmmaking - Joseph Jenner (King's College, London, UK)
13. Becoming Laika (Kapadia, 2021): Ambiguities of Time and the Body in Virtual Reality - . Davina Quinlivan (University of Bristol, UK)
14. Me2: Personifications of the Systemic Glitch - Nick Jones (University of York, UK)
Bibliography
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Product details
| Published | Feb 05 2026 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 256 |
| ISBN | 9781350370630 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Illustrations | 30 bw illus |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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