Intimacy in Cinema: Critical Essays on English Language Films (Paperback)

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Though intimacy has been a wide concern in the humanities it has received little critical attention in film studies. This collection of new essays investigates both the potential intimacy of cinema as a medium and the possibility of a cinema of intimacy where it is least expected. As a notion defined by binaries--inside and outside surface and depth public and private self and other--intimacy because it implies sharing calls into question the boundaries between these extremes and the border separating mainstream cinema and independent or auteur cinema. Following on Thomas Elsaesser s theories of the relationship between the intimacy of cinema and the cinema of intimacy the essays explore intimacy in silent and classic Hollywood movies underground documentary and animation films; and contemporary Hollywood British Canadian and Australian cinema from a variety of approaches.