Phenomenology of In-betweenness
The Shimmering Images in Jane Schoenbrun’s Films
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22030874 |
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| Authors | Jelena Mišeljić (University of Montenegro, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Issue | 38 |
| Publication date | 2025-10-15 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | AM Journal of Art and Media Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2217-9666 • E-ISSN: 2406-1654 |
| Publisher | Faculty of Media and Communication (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.25038/am.v0i28.643 |
| OpenAlex | W4416788705 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 7 |
This paper explores the intersection of phenomenology and trans cinema through Jane Schoenbrun’s films, arguing that they evoke the lived, sensory experience of in-betweenness and liminality. Drawing on theories by Sara Ahmed, Vivian Sobchack, Laura U. Marks, and Eliza Steinbock, I contend that Schoenbrun’s cinema privileges affective resonance, haptic visuality, and temporal ambiguity over narrative resolution. Through digital textures, tactile imagery, and fragmented timelines, these films invite viewers to inhabit uncertainty and somatic disquiet as ongoing, shimmering events. Such cinematic approaches offer resistance by sensitizing audiences to new understandings of embodiment and identity in an era of contested bodily autonomy
Ambiguity · Disenchantment · Movie theater · Narrative · Cinema and Media Studies · Digital Media and Philosophy · Walter Benjamin Studies Compilation
| Highly cited | No |
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