Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: a paradigm shift in film studies. "A particular type of film experience" -- A paradigm shift in film studies -- Affect and the feature film -- Cinema and embodied affect -- Precarious boundaries: affect, mise en sc�ene and the senses in Angelopoulos, Balkans epic -- Nowhere to hide: the tumultuous materialism of Lee Myung-Se -- Affect and documentary. But what does the man in the cowboy hat think? -- Intercultural dialogue: silence, taboo and masquerade -- Garin Nugroho: Didong, cinema and the embodiment of politics in cultural form -- The poetics of a potato: documentary that gets under the skin -- "Buddhas made of ice and butter": mimetic visuality, transience and the documentary image.

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