The Tactile Eye: Touch and the Cinematic Experience

"With her provocative focus on the tactile dimensions of cinema, Jennifer Barker crucially contributes to a reinvigoration of film theoretical debates. This book is a must-read not only for those interested in the interface between cinema and the body, but for anyone who believes in cinema's endless capacity to surprise us."--Elena del Rio, author of "Deleuze and the Cinemas of Performance: Powers of Affection "
""The Tactile Eye" makes an important contribution to the recent discourses of embodiment in cinema and cultural studies. Grounded in existential phenomenology, the book abounds with productive suggestions, and precise analytical tools, with which one might carry out a deeply tactile ("textural") analysis of cinema."--Laura U. Marks, author of "Touch: Sensuous Theory and Multisensory Media"