This book offers an interdisciplinary exploration of the identity-forming interplay between text, textiles, and skin in and through film. Its central thesis proposes that film, through the oscillation between textiles and bare skin, creates iconic condensations that open up an associative space of experience. In this process, the material both narrative and textile gives way to the sensual, to affective engagement through the skin.

The study examines the relationship between cinematic reception and the self-reflection of viewers, as well as of society and film itself within their...