Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgements Introduction 1. The Memory of Images 2. The Memory of Things 3. The Memory of Touch 4. The Memory of the Senses Conclusion: The Portable Sensorium Notes Bibliography Filmography/Videography Index

Promotional Information

Offers a guide to many hard-to-find works of independent film and video made by Third World diasporic filmmakers now living in the United States, Great Britain, and Canada

About the Author

Laura U. Marks is an independent critic and curator, as well as Assistant Professor of Film Studies at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada.

Reviews

"A marvellous interweaving of theory and historiography. This is a book that can interest film theorists, film historians, students of performance art, and scholars of postcoloniality and interculturalism. Marks explains-with rich detail-a whole range of recent cultural productions in film and video and makes those works come to life. The Skin of the Film suggests important ways to extend film theory."-Dana Polan, University of Southern California "This is a terrific book! Not only does it have a significant argument to make, but it also works with a variety of little-known film/video examples in such a way as to give the reader both a vivid sense of them and a desire to go out and get hold of them." -Vivian Sobchack, University of California at Los Angeles