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  • The Sensory Child of Contemporary Cinema: Sight, Sound, Touch

    The Sensory Child of Contemporary Cinema by May, Nonie;

    Sight, Sound, Touch

    Series: Film Culture in Transition;

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    Product details:

    • Edition number 1
    • Publisher Routledge
    • Date of Publication 18 November 2025

    • ISBN 9789048562336
    • Binding Hardback
    • No. of pages206 pages
    • Size 234x156 mm
    • Weight 666 g
    • Language English
    • 700

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    Short description:

    The Sensory Child: Sight, Sound, Touch examines a poetic film form evident in contemporary cinema that seems intent on capturing the textures, the materials, and the sensations of childhood. These films foreground the child’s point of view, construct a child’s gaze, and mobilise an aesthetic that evokes a sensory recollection of childhood.

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    Long description:

    The Sensory Child: Sight, Sound, Touch examines a poetic film form evident in contemporary cinema that seems intent on capturing the textures, the materials, and the sensations of childhood. These films foreground the child’s point of view, construct a child’s gaze, and mobilise an aesthetic that evokes a sensory recollection of childhood. This complex arrangement of aesthetic modes is intended to address the adult spectator bodily, and evoke the vivid, sensory memories of childhood. The Sensory Child rethinks a gap in contemporary film theory created by a seeming hiatus between psychoanalytic and phenomenological approaches to the cinema. The book examines key instances of this aesthetic of childhood in the films Aftersun (2022), The Fits (2015), What Maisie Knew (2013), and Moonlight (2016). May argues that psychoanalytic theory can elucidate the significance of such tactile moments, offering insight into the meaning evoked for the spectator by this sensory, poetic film form.

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    Table of Contents:

    INTRODUCTION, 1. Nostalgia, Screen Memories, and Approximations of Childhood in Aftersun (2022), 2. Hysterical Fantasies of Bodily Collapse in The Fits (2015), 3. Longing for Childhood: Tracing the Child’s Gaze in What Maisie Knew (2013), 4. “Who is you, Chiron?”: Poetic Film Form and Melancholia in Moonlight (2016), CONCLUSION, BIBLIOGRAPHY, FILMOGRAPHY, INDEX

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