The Skin of the Film: Intercultural Cinema, Embodiment, and the Senses
Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2000
Building on the theories of Gilles Deleuze and others, Marks explains how and why intercultural cinema represents embodied experience in a postcolonial, transnational world. Marks offers a theory of "haptic visuality" -- a visuality that functions like the sense of touch by triggering physical memories of smell, touch, and taste - to explain the newfound ways in which intercultural cinema engages the viewer bodily to convey cultural experience and memory. The moving image allows viewers to experience cinema as a physical and multisensory embodiment of culture, not just as a visual representation of experience. Finally, this book offers a guide to many hard-to-find works of independent film and video made by Third World diasporic filmmakers now living in the United States, Great Britain, and Canada. The Skin of the Film draws on phenomenology, postcolonial and feminist theory, anthropology, and cognitive science.
Note that Marks defines "cinema" to include all time-based, audiovisual media -- from short experimental videos to feature-length narratives.
ITEM 2000.156 – available for viewing in the Research Centre
Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited
Aletheia – Tran T. Kim-Trang
Ekleipsis – Tran T. Kim-Trang
Kore – Tran T. Kim-Trang
Ocularis: Eye Surrogates – Tran T. Kim-Trang
Operculum – Tran T. Kim-Trang
Finagnon – Gary Kibbins
A Box of His Own – Yudi Sewraj
Changing Parts – Mona Hatoum
Measures of Distance – Mona Hatoum
Chinese Characters – Richard Fung
Her Sweetness Lingers – Shani Mootoo
Instructions for Recovering Forgotten Childhood Memories – Steve Reinke
I Wet My Hands Etched and Surveyed Vessels Approaching Marks Eyed – Roula Haj-Ismail
Inside – Roula Haj-Ismail
Memories from the Department of Amnesia – Janice Tanaka
Speaking for oneself . . . speaking for others Muqaddimah Li-Nihayat Jidal (Introduction to the end of an argument) – Jayce Salloum
Speaking for oneself . . . speaking for others Muqaddimah Li-Nihayat Jidal (Introduction to the end of an argument) – Elia Suleiman
New View/New Eyes – Gitanjali
Nunaqpa – Igloolik Isuma Productions
Nunavut – Igloolik Isuma Productions
Qaggig – Igloolik Isuma Productions
Saputi – Igloolik Isuma Productions
Sari Red – Pratibha Parmar
Slanted Vision – Ming-Yuen S. Ma
Sniff – Ming-Yuen S. Ma
Toc Storee – Ming-Yuen S. Ma
Talaeen a Junuub (Up From the South) – Jayce Salloum
Talaeen a Junuub (Up From the South) – Walid Ra’ad
water into fire – Zachery Longboy
Who’s Gonna Pay For These Donuts Anyway? – Janice Tanaka
Walid Raad