Martine Beugnet (Author) Martine Beugnet is Professor in Visual Studies at the Universite Paris Cite and a member of ECHELLES, a CNRS research institute. In English, she is the author of Cinema and Sensation (Edinburgh, 2007, 2012) and Claire Denis (Manchester, 2004), coauthor of Proust at the Movies (Ashgate and Routledge, 2005), and coeditor of Indefinite Visions: Cinema and the Attractions of Uncertainty (Edinburgh, 2017). Lindsay Turner (Translator) Lindsay Turner is Associate Professor of English and Creative Writing at Case Western Reserve University. She is the author of two collections of poetry and has translated books by Stephane Bouquet, Eric Baratay, Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Anne Dufourmantelle, Richard Rechtman, Ryoko Sekiguchi, and others.
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"Beugnet's ingenious insights seep like a fog into once-crisp categories of film analysis, unsettling notions of blur as visual deficiency. Near-sighted characters, formless smudges, teary and weary vision, and perspectival and atmospheric distortions energize this compelling love song to the affordances of and cinematic predisposition toward visual chaos, vagueness, uncertainty and confusion. Clearly, it's the perfect moment for both cinema and blur."---Karen Redrobe, author of Crash: Cinema and the Politics of Speed and Stasis