The Proximity of Other Skins
Ethical Intimacy in Global Cinema
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 24 January 2020
- ISBN 9780190865856
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages262 pages
- Size 244x162x22 mm
- Weight 536 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 9 film stills 31
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Short description:
Traversing classical Hollywood to the cinema of Park Chan-wook, Gina Kim, and Ramona Diaz, and Cannes award-winning director Brilliante Mendoza, The Proximity of Other Skins looks at transnational films that achieved global prominence by presenting a different cinematic language of love and sex.
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Transnational films that represent intimacy and inequality produce new experiences that result in the displacement of the universal spectator, in a redefinition of the power of cinema for today's global audiences. The Proximity of Other Skins examines transnational films that achieve global prominence in presenting a different cinematic language of love and sex. Author Celine Parre?as Shimizu traverses independent films by Gina Kim and Ramona Diaz to the global cinema of Laurent Cantet, Park Chan-wook and Cannes award-winning director Brilliante Mendoza and their representations of transnational intimacies. In doing so, she addresses unexpected encounters in the global movement of people and goods within their geopolitical, historical, and cultural contexts. In these celebrated films that move across continents, she finds ways to expand our definition of intimacy, including explicit sex and relations that go beyond sex, enabling us the opportunity to theorize how people now live together in many spheres of contemporary life. Readers can then better understand how intimacy can affirm and express love, but also alienate and oppress, revealing the loneliness, pain, and suffering within transnational, national, and personal relations of power and hierarchy. In studying representations of intimacy, the book calls to expand our vocabulary of moving images and its role in redefining care work and affective relations between people across difference and inequality. The book addresses cinematic intimacies between husbands/wives/lovers, understanding between sex workers and clients, close familiarity between rich and poor, and new affinities between citizen and refugee and laborer and capitalist.
In The Proximity of Other Skins, Celine Parre?as Shimizu offers a powerful model of ethical intimacy that demands a global understanding of cinema, sexuality, and otherness. Through a series of insightful and passionate readings, she challenges us to see movies -- and ourselves -- with greater rigor and political complexity. As with her other books, I come away from this one with a finer grasp of how cinema, seen through her illuminating vision, can provoke and unsettle in the best ways.
Table of Contents:
1. Introduction: Subject/ Abject Relations in Those Long Haired Nights (2017) and Call Her Ganda (2018)
2. (Rich) White Women, (Poor) Brown Men, and Sexual Settings: Political and Libidinal Economies in Heading South (2005) and Never Forever (2007)
3. The Compassion of Shared Spectatorship: Annihilation and Affliction in Brillante Mendoza's Tirador (2007), Serbis (2007) and Ma'Rosa (2016)
4. Intimate Eruptions and the Embodied Montage: Performing Roles and Breaking Rules between Masters and Servants in The Housemaid (2011) and Handmaiden (2016)
5. The Ethics of Representing Oneself and Others: Ramona Diaz's Imelda (2005) and David Byrne's Here Lies Love (2010-17)
6. Epilogue: Memory and Death (2013-Present)
7. References
