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IJC - Nº 2 2014 - International Journal of Cinema - Cinema and the Body - Nº 2
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Cinema and the Body
"[…] the rhythm, the way bodies are framed and lit, that's when we start to lose ourselves, and cinema comes closest to what it essentially is: sensual experience of the world"
Philippe Grandrieux, Director
The body in cinema is a fusion of the corporal and the visual, the concrete and the ephemeral, the eternal present and the fossilization of a historical moment. The omnipresence of the body within cinema, in fact, makes a precise definition elusive. Its ever?presence seduces, confounds, and engages. Influenced by Shapiro’s polemic discourse in 1993, “The Cinematic Body,” the concept of the body in cinema emerged as a radically new approach to cinematic theory. Furthermore, post-modern cinema has both deconstructed and reconstructed the presence of the human actor. With the continuing evolution of 3D cinema and holograms, the flatness of the cinema is replaced by a three-dimensional, digitally reconstructed simulation of the body: the transformation of human form into disembodied digital bytes problematizes our very notion of embodiment. Placing the body central in the artistic and scientific inquiry offers an antidote to cinema as a purely visual medium, and is a critical component of the discussion of representation in cinema: it not only increases the awareness of how the presence of the onscreen body is constructed and perceived, but it rethinks the physicality of the spectator and the filmmaker as well.
The editors welcome a broad range of essays in the following areas:
o The brain in films and films in the brain: scientific representations of the body and neurocinematics
o Practice-based research of the cinematic body from the point of view of performer and/or author
o New technologies for portraying the body in cinema (e.g., virtual avatars)
o The body as an interface to cinema (e.g. enactive cinema)
o The bodily representation of gender, race, and the physically challenged in cinema
o The body and performativity: the body as image and sound in cinema, body movement and kinesics
Submission date:31/10/2013
Contact email: internationaljournalofcinema-AT-gmail.com
"[…] the rhythm, the way bodies are framed and lit, that's when we start to lose ourselves, and cinema comes closest to what it essentially is: sensual experience of the world"
Philippe Grandrieux, Director
The body in cinema is a fusion of the corporal and the visual, the concrete and the ephemeral, the eternal present and the fossilization of a historical moment. The omnipresence of the body within cinema, in fact, makes a precise definition elusive. Its ever?presence seduces, confounds, and engages. Influenced by Shapiro’s polemic discourse in 1993, “The Cinematic Body,” the concept of the body in cinema emerged as a radically new approach to cinematic theory. Furthermore, post-modern cinema has both deconstructed and reconstructed the presence of the human actor. With the continuing evolution of 3D cinema and holograms, the flatness of the cinema is replaced by a three-dimensional, digitally reconstructed simulation of the body: the transformation of human form into disembodied digital bytes problematizes our very notion of embodiment. Placing the body central in the artistic and scientific inquiry offers an antidote to cinema as a purely visual medium, and is a critical component of the discussion of representation in cinema: it not only increases the awareness of how the presence of the onscreen body is constructed and perceived, but it rethinks the physicality of the spectator and the filmmaker as well.
The editors welcome a broad range of essays in the following areas:
o The brain in films and films in the brain: scientific representations of the body and neurocinematics
o Practice-based research of the cinematic body from the point of view of performer and/or author
o New technologies for portraying the body in cinema (e.g., virtual avatars)
o The body as an interface to cinema (e.g. enactive cinema)
o The bodily representation of gender, race, and the physically challenged in cinema
o The body and performativity: the body as image and sound in cinema, body movement and kinesics
Submission date:31/10/2013
Contact email: internationaljournalofcinema-AT-gmail.com
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