Provides the first consideration of sound and the body in contemporary European art cinemaOffers detailed analysis of the underexplored dimension of sound in the work of some of the best known contemporary European art film directorsProvides a stimulating contribution to theories of cinematic spectatorship showing how sound noise and listening can rethink all aspects of the filmic experienceExplores the conceptualisation of cinema as a resonant bodyConsiders the sonic dimensions of cinema alongside prescient current debates in European film and criticism about the body migration and exile as well as anthropocentrism and anthropocentric modes of representationWhat does it mean to exist in our experience of cinema according to listening How do sound and noise reconfigure relations between spectators and screens and by extension spectators and their worlds How do films raise questions about the ethics and politics of listening to different bodies Resonant Bodies in Contemporary European Art Cinema answers these questions through an analysis of films by Catherine Breillat Gaspar Noe Tony Gatlif Arnaud des Pallieres Lars von Trier and Peter Strickland These post millennial European directors have worked with sound in ways that resist the full definition and perfect hearing offered by Dolby technology Instead they have privileged noise sounds that take us to the limit of what we can hear in a move that foregrounds the body on screen and constructs spectators as listening bodies

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