The Sensory Child of Contemporary Cinema

Sight, Sound, Touch

Nonie May (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

206 Seiten

2026
Pallas Publications (Verlag)
978-90-485-6233-6 (ISBN)

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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.

Nonie May is a Lecturer at The University of Melbourne. Her research mobilises feminist approaches to psychoanalytic film theory. Recent publications include the Barbie Dossier, Feminist Media Studies, (2024), the chapter ‘Written on the Body’, The UnDead Child (2024), and the prize-winning essay An Cailín Ciúin’, Senses of Cinema (2022).

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

Erscheinungsdatum	17.10.2025
Reihe/Serie	Film Culture in Transition
Verlagsort	Amsterdam
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
Themenwelt	Kinder- / Jugendbuch
ISBN-10	90-485-6233-3 / 9048562333
ISBN-13	978-90-485-6233-6 / 9789048562336
Zustand	Neuware