Intimacy in Cinema

David Roche is a professor of film studies at the Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès. He has published articles on horror cinema, and Darren Aronofsky, Tim Burton, David Cronenberg, Emir Kusturica, Sergio Leone, David Lynch and Quentin Tarantino. He lives in Montpellier, France. Isabelle Schmitt-Pitiot is an associate professor at the Université de Bourgogne. Her interests include cinema and TV series. She has published articles on Woody Allen, John Ford and John Huston. She lives in Dijon, France.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgments v“I feel different inside”: An Introduction to Intimacy in English Language Cinema (David Roche and Isabelle ­Schmitt-Pitiot) 1Touch and Gesture: On the Borders of Intimacy (Thomas Elsaesser) 17Exposing and Threatening Female Intimacy and Sexuality: How Traffic in Souls Depicts the White Slave Trade in New York (Clémentine ­Tholas-Disset) 34Fictions of Intimacy and the Intimacy of Fiction: “Going into people’s houses” and the Remediation of 1920s Film Reception (Fabrice Lyczba) 46The Impossible Sex Life of Couples in the Screwball Comedy (Grégoire Halbout) 61Intimacy Shared in Laughter and Tears: Brief Encounter and The Seven Year Itch (Raphaëlle Costa de Beauregard) 73The Intimate Gaze: (Deviant) Uses of the Subjective Camera in Lady in the Lake and La Femme défendue (Christophe Gelly) 84Shooting Stars and Poet Friends in My Bedroom: Domestic and Poetic Intimacy in Pull My Daisy (Céline Murillo) 94Public Confessions in American Revolution 2 (Zachary Baqué) 105The Limits of Hypermasculinity: Intimacy in American Science Fiction Films of the 1980s (Marianne ­Kac-Vergne) 119“I’ve got you under my skin”: No Exit from Insane Intimacy in Bug (Christophe Chambost) 133Filming Fantasy, Imitating the Intimate in Eyes Wide Shut (Yann Roblou) 146J. Edgar: Staging Secrecy (Anne-Marie ­Paquet-Deyris) 156Intrusions of the Other: Intimacy in the Films of Atom Egoyan (Jean-François Baillon) 165Hidden Worlds and Unspoken Desires: Terence Davies and Autobiographical Discourse (Wendy Everett) 179“Extimacy” and Embodiment in Hunger and Shame (Isabelle Le Corff) 192Keira’s Kiss: The Affordance of “Kissability” in the Film Experience (Adriano D’Aloia) 202Melancholy, Empathy and Animated Bodies: Pixar vs. Mary and Max (Richard Neupert) 215About the Contributors 225Index 229

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