Film Encounters with the Body
Klaudia Rachubińska
klaudia.rachubinska@ispan.plInstitute of Art, Polish Academy of Sciences (Poland)
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8240-0643
Abstract
The article is a review of Marta Stańczyk’s book Filmowe sensorium. Teoria zmysłów i jej krytyczny potencjał [Film Sensorium: Sensuous Theory and Its Critical Potential] (2023). The book introduces the Polish reader to the fundamentals of sensuous theory, which has been developing since the 1990s, reconstructs its philosophical background and its position in the history of film thought, explores the experience and description of film through individual senses and a multisensory perspective, and examines the possibility of a critical application of the theory. The author of the review situates the publication in a broader context of the concerns relating to the often too arbitrary use of the embodied perspective in the humanities and reads Stańczyk’s theoretical proposition through the notion of “weak theory” developed in the field of affect theory. Although the book may leave the reader not fully satisfied, the author’s insight and erudition, as well as her adoption of an openly ethical perspective, make Stańczyk’s book a valuable and original contribution to Polish film thought.
Keywords:
sensuous theory, cinema as a sensory experience, somatic turn, weak theory, Vivian SobchackReferences
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Authors
Klaudia Rachubińskaklaudia.rachubinska@ispan.pl
Institute of Art, Polish Academy of Sciences Poland
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8240-0643
Film and visual culture scholar, graduate of the Faculty of Psychology and the Faculty of Polish Studies, University of Warsaw. Affiliated with the Department of Film Studies, Audiovisual Arts and Anthropology of Culture at the Institute of Art of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Editor of the academic film journal Kwartalnik Filmowy (2022-), former editor of the Polish film quarterly Pleograf. Kwartalnik Akademii Polskiego Filmu (2018-2021), member of the Polish Society for Film and Media Studies. Winner of the Grand Prix of the XXIII Krzysztof Mętrak Competition for young film critics. She currently works on her PhD thesis on the images of women in popular music.
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