{"title":"Nicole Brenez","description":"\u003cp\u003eNicole Brenez’s works delve deeply into the intersections of visual culture and corporeal experience, offering thoughtful explorations within the realm of \u003cstrong\u003eArts \u0026amp; Culture\u003c\/strong\u003e. Her writing often examines the body as both subject and medium, inviting readers to reconsider familiar forms through a nuanced lens.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith titles such as \u003cem\u003eOn The Figure In General And The Body In Particular\u003c\/em\u003e, Brenez challenges traditional perspectives and encourages a reflective engagement with art, photography, and performance. Her prose is both intellectually rigorous and accessible, making her works essential for those intrigued by the physical and conceptual dimensions of artistic expression.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"on-the-figure-in-general-and-the-body-in-particular-by-nicole-brenez-9781839998867","title":"On The Figure In General And The Body In Particular","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThese wide-ranging essays covering an array of film genres and styles propose a method of cinematic analysis and interpretation that foregrounds film's formal and plastic qualities.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFilms fill our imagination with figures, figurines, and talismans. They ceaselessly rework the same archetypes and invent troubling prototypes, especially when they establish a deeper relationship to reality.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHow do we understand these presences that are both so characteristic and so diverse in cinema? How does film deal with bodies, movements, and gestures? Why are we so drawn to these shadows, silhouettes, and hypothetical beings? What organises the figurative values at work in a film?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHow do cinematic creatures circulate from film to film and image to image? How does film articulate the links between the abstract and figurative? Is it possible to write a history of figurative forms?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eStarting from films themselves and works that are both classical (Sergei Eisenstein, Roberto Rossellini, Orson Welles) and contemporary (Abel Ferrara, Brian De Palma, Patricia Mazuy), celebrated (Robert Bresson, John Cassavetes, Ken Jacobs, Paul Sharits) and overlooked (Al Razutis, Jean Genet, Monte Hellman, and John Travolta), from auteurs as well as aesthetic questions (representations of dance, the naked body, character development...), the essays in \u003cem\u003eOn The Figure In General And The Body In Particular\u003c\/em\u003e, most available for the first time in English, aim to open a field that has been neglected by analysis, while also suggesting the tools necessary for understanding figurative phenomena specific to cinema.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"NewSouth Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47934162272492,"sku":"9781839998867","price":113.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781839998867-on-the-figure-in-general-and-the-body-in-particular.jpg?v=1783901216"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.pro\/collections\/nicole-brenez.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}