EAN: 9789052010625

SHAME AND DESIRE - TARJA LAINE KARTONIERT (TB)

Shame and Desire defines the contemporary cinematic experience in terms that go beyond the
visual. Adopting an intersubjective perspective on film studies  the author maintains that the
dialectical poles of subject and object  seeing and being seen no longer seem to be valid. We
are now surrounded by images that look back at us provocatively  seductively  indifferently 
and not only in movies  but also in art  television  the city  in chance encounters  and in our
private relationships. Taking her cue from Jean-Paul Sartre  the author shows how emotions
exemplify the way in which we are 'forced' to see ourselves through the eyes of others  unable
to escape an identity that is imposed upon us from the outside but nevertheless resides 'in the
flesh' - in the affective operations of the body and the senses. To illustrate her account of
the intersubjective dynamics and affective bonds of cinema  the author explores the
contemporary aesthetic investment in the emotional in the work of filmmakers such as Lars von
Trier  Michael Haneke and Eija-Liisa Ahtila. This book proposes an insight into the ways in
which we are engaged with visual displays and the look with which they respond to our looking.

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