Brenez on Epstein

On the occasion of the publishing of the new anthology Jean Epstein: Critical Essays and New Translations (Amsterdam University Press, 2012) edited by Sarah Keller and Jason N. Paul, MUBI is reprinting an essay by Nicole Brenez called ‘Ultra-Modern: Jean Epstein, or Cinema “Serving the Forces of Transgression and Revolt”‘. In one section of the essay Brenez discusses ‘extreme hapticality’, which is related to a theme that will be explored in our upcoming special issue on ‘Tangibility’ in Autumn 2012.