A study of an intriguing aspect of contemporary French cinema - the cinema of transgressionThis book looks at a much-debated phenomenon in contemporary cinema: the re-emergence of filmmaking practices and theoretical approaches that give precedence to cinema as the medium of the senses. It discusses a series of French films that typify a willingness to explore cinema's unique capacity to move us both viscerally and intellectually.Key FeaturesDraws on the theory of Deleuze, Merleau-Ponty and BatailleDevelops her arguments from the description of specific sequences, techniques and motifs which allows us to engage with the works as material events and as thinking processesFilms discussed include Adieu, A ma soeur, Baise-moi, Beau Travail, La Blessure, La Captive, Dans ma peau, Demonlover, L'Humanité, Flandres, L'Intrus, Les Invisibles, Lady Chatterley, Leçons de ténèbres, Romance, Sombre, Tiresia, Trouble Every Day, Twentynine Palms, Vendredi soir, La Vie nouvelle, Wild Side and Zidane, un portrait du XXIème siècleRecommendations'Cinema and Sensation achieves a seamless intermingling of theoretical enquiry and film analysis, allowing film and theory to shape and inflect each other… Cinema and Sensation offers new and elastic contact with French cinema, as it also awakens new thought through the senses.' - Screen'It is a testament to her incisive and highly eloquent prose that her core argument is never obscured by dense theorising or hijacked by all-too obvious straining for academic profundity. those who still remain inured to (or unconvinced by) Deluzean film analysis would do well to dip into this book, so lucidly does it present complex arguments.' Screening the Past'A compelling example of how film criticism can operate at the junction between perception and understanding, between embodied response and critical reflection.' The Senses and Society'This exciting work by film scholar Martine Beugnet makes an important contribution to contemporary debates on the materiality and affective potential of cinema.' Modern and Contemporary France.