The body as cogito: a contemporary cinema in the light of Merleau-Ponty.

Authors

  • Julio Bezerra

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.30962/ec.476

Keywords:

cinema contemporâneo, fenomenologia, corpo

Abstract

This essay arises from an insight: contemporary cinema is marked by a new transnational wave. A cinema intimately linked to a different look at the body. The body as reflection, as metaphor, as an experimental place for representation. Our hypothesis is that the phenomenology of Merleau-Ponty provides us with valuable tools to broaden the debate on a cinema that explores a bodily relationship with the world. Our goal is to discuss these issues in brief analyzes of three contemporary filmmakers: Tsai Ming-Liang, A. Weerasethakul and Karim Ainouz.

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Published

29-06-2010

How to Cite

Bezerra, J. (2010). The body as cogito: a contemporary cinema in the light of Merleau-Ponty. E-Compós, 13(1). https://doi.org/10.30962/ec.476

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