The Place of Breath in Cinema

The book asks how cinema can articulate the spaces between visibility and invisibility, and how absence and the unseen figure in the experience of film. Its starting point is the breathing body, which it treats as central to watching a film.

Davina Quinlivan sets out an approach to film criticism shaped by foregrounding the human body. The study addresses embodiment in film and what it means to be a sensuous spectator.

Published by Edinburgh University Press. ISBN-13: 9780748683062.