I sing the body synaesthetic: cinema embodiment in Peter Greenaway's "Goltzius and the Pelican Company"

Chinita, Fátima

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I sing the body synaesthetic: cinema embodiment in Peter Greenaway's "Goltzius and the Pelican Company"

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dc.contributor.author	Chinita, Fátima
dc.date.accessioned	2017-05-29T12:29:36Z
dc.date.available	2017-05-29T12:29:36Z
dc.date.issued	2016
dc.description.abstract	ABSTRACT - In 1911, Ricciotto Canudo labeled the cinema as the Seventh Art and claimed that it was superior to the other so-far existing art forms. In 2012, the British filmmaker Peter Greenaway directed yet another film that makes use of all these arts and media to convey an authorial discourse on the importance of cinema and its versatility: "Goltzius and the Pelican Company" (UK). I contend that this art house film, unemotional, filled with distancing effects and exhibiting nakedness throughout, is, in fact, an extremely sensorial piece of cinema where corporeality is not only the form but also the message, both literally and metaphorically. I advocate that this cerebral film can be sensual and sensuous, both through the use of the characters’ bodies and the materiality of the text. I also consider that this film generates two types of qualified immersion in the viewer: an artistic appreciation derived from coenasthesia and film textures; and a narrative appreciation caused by alignment with the characters, their non-psychological nature notwithstanding. Allegory, as both a structural device and a conveyor of meaning, is responsible for the combination of spectatorial detachment and immersion.	pt_PT
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dc.identifier.isbn	978-3-941310-78-0
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10400.21/7099
dc.language.iso	eng	pt_PT
dc.peerreviewed	yes	pt_PT
dc.publisher	Büchner-Verlag eG	pt_PT
dc.relation	Financially supported by FCT, under the Post-Doctoral fellowship programme SFRH/BDP/113196/2015	pt_PT
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/	pt_PT
dc.subject	Corporeality	pt_PT
dc.subject	Synaesthesia	pt_PT
dc.subject	Immersion	pt_PT
dc.subject	Textures	pt_PT
dc.subject	Allegory	pt_PT
dc.subject	Peter Greenaway
dc.title	I sing the body synaesthetic: cinema embodiment in Peter Greenaway's "Goltzius and the Pelican Company"	pt_PT
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oaire.citation.conferencePlace	Darmstadt	pt_PT
oaire.citation.endPage	107	pt_PT
oaire.citation.startPage	86	pt_PT
oaire.citation.title	Image embodiment: new perspectives of the sensory turn	pt_PT
person.familyName	Mata
person.givenName	Maria
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