Berkeley : University of California Press, 2009.

xii, 196 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-185) and index.

Introduction: Eye Contact -- Tactility -- Film's Body -- Moving Pictures -- Touch and Go --- 1. Skin -- Textural Analysis -- Film's Skin -- Eroticism -- Pleasure -- Horror -- History Mon Amour --- 2. Musculature -- Through a Glass Deftly -- Empathy -- Here and There -- A Tenuous Grasp -- Apprehension --- 3. Viscera -- Heart-stopping -- Hiccups -- La Petite Mort -- Child's Play -- Conclusion: Inspiration -- Breathtaking -- The Wind in the Trees -- Everywhere and Always -- The Big Swallow.

"The Tactile Eye expands on phenomenological analysis and film theory in its accessible and beautifully written exploration of the visceral connection between films and their viewers. Jennifer M. Barker argues that the experience of cinema can be understood as deeply tactile - a sensuous exchange between film and viewer that goes beyond the visual and aural, gets beneath the skin, and reverberates in the body. Barker combines analysis of embodiment and phenomenological film theory to provide an expansive description of cinematic tactility. She considers feminist experimental film, early cinema, animation, and horror, as well as classic, modernist, and postmodern cinema; films from ten national cinemas; and work by Chuck Jones, Buster Keaton, the Quay Brothers, Satyajit Ray, Carolee Schneemann, and Tom Tykwer, among others." -- Book cover.

Human body in motion pictures.

Motion pictures -- Psychological aspects.

Motion picture audiences -- Psychology.

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