Laura U Marks: 2 books
The Skin of the Film
Intercultural Cinema, Embodiment, and the Senses
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2000
Memories that evoke the physical awareness of touch, smell, and bodily presence can be vital links to home for people living in diaspora from their culture of origin. How can filmmakers working between cultures use cinema, a visual medium, to transmit that physical sense of place and culture? In The...
Hanan al-Cinema
Affections for the Moving Image
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2015
An examination of experimental cinema and media art from the Arabic-speaking world that explores filmmakers' creative and philosophical inventiveness in trying times.
In this book, Laura Marks examines one of the world's most impressive, and affecting, bodies of independent and experimental...