In Linda Williams’s article “Film Bodies: Gender, Genre, and Excess”, she focuses on three film genres that have a certain power to excite, yet lack of aesthetic elements. Three film genres she discusses are pornography, horror, and melodramas. The reason she concentrates on these genres is because she believes that these films provoke primitive emotions (pleasure, fear, pain), which manipulate the body at a sensational level. In these films, there is the absence of proper aesthetic distance which gives a sense of over-involvement in sensation and emotion.
Williams describes film bodies as the ways that the spectator’s body involuntarily mimics the emotions or sensations of the body on the screen. This visceral connection with the film’s body
Williams describes film bodies as the ways that the spectator’s body involuntarily mimics the emotions or sensations of the body on the screen. This visceral connection with the film’s body