Precarious Intimacies : The Politics of Touch in Contemporary Western European Cinema / / Maria Stehle and Beverly Weber

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910422651903321
• Autore: Stehle Maria
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Evanston, Illinois : , : Northwestern University Press, , 2020; ©2020
• ISBN: 0-8101-4212-0
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource
• Disciplina: 791.43653
• Soggetti: Touch in motion pictures; Intimacy (Psychology) in motion pictures; Motion pictures - Europe - History; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction: Politics of Intimacy in Contemporary European Cinema -- Touching Journeys: Precarious Intimacies and Narratives of Nonarrival -- Touch as Narrative Disruption: Race, Gender, and Queering Intimacy -- Religion, Sexuality, and Precarious Intimacy -- Commodified Intimacy in a Globalizing Europe -- White Fragility and the White Gaze: Race, Gender, and Neoliberalism -- Conclusion: Precarious Intimacies, Collaborations, and Solidarities
• Sommario/riassunto: "This book interrogates the politics and aesthetics of intimacy in European cinema through the lens of precarity"--