Beginnings | p. 1 |
Sombre | p. 1 |
Lecons de tenebres | p. 1 |
Cinema and sensation | p. 2 |
Doing away with the context? | p. 11 |
French cinema and transgression | p. 14 |
A 'third path' | p. 21 |
The 'precocious old age of the cinema' | p. 24 |
The 'precocious old age' of film theory and criticism | p. 26 |
The trouble with French cinema: film and transgression | p. 32 |
Horror that sticks | p. 41 |
Pronocracies | p. 47 |
Liminal visions | p. 54 |
The art of sensation | p. 59 |
The aesthetics of sensation | p. 63 |
The haptic and the optical | p. 65 |
From formlessness to immanence | p. 68 |
Synaesthesia | p. 72 |
Close-up | p. 88 |
The gaze of the inanimate | p. 108 |
The aesthetics of chaos | p. 113 |
Film bodies (becomings and embodiment) | p. 125 |
From genre to archetype | p. 125 |
Becomings | p. 129 |
Film bodies | p. 149 |
Corporate (dis)embodiment | p. 150 |
Becoming film | p. 170 |
Epilogue | p. 177 |
Bibliography | p. 179 |
Filmography | p. 189 |
Index | p. 190 |
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