Francesca Minnie Hardy is Senior Lecturer in Film and Television at Nottingham Trent University. Her research explores the body’s relationship to cinema, both on- and off-screen. Her first monograph, titled Vital Resonances: Encountering film with Varda, Haneke and Nancy, was published in 2021 by Edinburgh University Press.

• 1. Introduction 2. The art cinema body in theory 3. Lingering in the men’s room 4. Of aliens and alter egos 5. Of bathroom sinks and the streets below 6. Of wigs and fig leaves 7. Of totalitarianism and toilet doors 8. Conclusion

Francesca Minnie Hardy is Senior Lecturer in Film and Television at Nottingham Trent University. Her research explores the body’s relationship to cinema, both on- and off-screen. Her first monograph, titled Vital Resonances: Encountering film with Varda, Haneke and Nancy, was published in 2021 by Edinburgh University Press.

• 1. Introduction 2. The art cinema body in theory 3. Lingering in the men’s room 4. Of aliens and alter egos 5. Of bathroom sinks and the streets below 6. Of wigs and fig leaves 7. Of totalitarianism and toilet doors 8. Conclusion

Francesca Minnie Hardy is Senior Lecturer in Film and Television at Nottingham Trent University. Her research explores the body’s relationship to cinema, both on- and off-screen. Her first monograph, titled Vital Resonances: Encountering film with Varda, Haneke and Nancy, was published in 2021 by Edinburgh University Press.

• 1. Introduction 2. The art cinema body in theory 3. Lingering in the men’s room 4. Of aliens and alter egos 5. Of bathroom sinks and the streets below 6. Of wigs and fig leaves 7. Of totalitarianism and toilet doors 8. Conclusion