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Author Sobchack, Vivian Carol

Title The address of the eye : a phenomenology of film experience / Vivian Sobchack
Published Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c1992

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Description 1 online resource (xxi, 330 p.)
Contents Ch. 1. Phenomenology and the Film Experience. The Embodied and Enworlded Eye: Perception and Expression. Film Theory and the Objectification of Embodied Vision. Phenomenology and Film Theory -- Ch. 2. The Act of Being with One's Own Eyes. Intentionality, Embodiment, and Movement. The Viewing Subject. Film and/as Viewing Subject. Whose Body? A Brief Meditation on Sexual Difference and Other Bodily Discriminations -- Ch. 3. Film's Body. Technology and Instrumentality. Tile Film Embodied. Film's Body: A Brief Intentional History -- Ch. 4. The Address of the Eye. Thesis and Antithesis: The Paranoia of Split Vision. Synthesis: The Dialectics of Double Vision. The Eye's Address. Toward the "Incorporation" of Subjective Experience in Film Theory
Summary Cinema is a sensuous object, but in our presence it becomes also a sensing, sensual, sense-making subject. Thus argues Vivian Sobchack as she challenges basic assumptions of current film theory that reduce film to an object of vision and the spectator to a victim of a deterministic cinematic apparatus. Maintaining that these premises ignore the material and cultural-historical situations of both the spectator and the film, the author makes the radical proposal that the cinematic experience depends on two "viewers" viewing: the spectator and the film, each existing as both subject and object of vision. Drawing on existential and semiotic phenomenology, and particularly on the work of Merleau-Ponty, Sobchack shows how the film experience provides empirical insight into the reversible, dialectical, and signifying nature of that embodied vision we each live daily as both "mine" and "another's." In this attempt to account for cinematic intelligibility and signification, the author explores the possibility of human choice and expressive freedom within the bounds of history and culture
Analysis Cinema Films (Motion pictures) Philosophy
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 311-321) and index
Notes Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed
SUBJECT Bibel Philemonbrief gnd
Subject Motion pictures -- Philosophy
PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- History & Criticism.
Motion pictures -- Philosophy
Phänomenologie
Psychologie
Visuelle Wahrnehmung
Film
Filmtheorie.
Filmkunst.
Filosofie.
Cinéma -- Philosophie.
cinéma -- perception visuelle -- spectateur.
cinéma -- phénoménologie -- Merleau-Ponty, Maurice.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2021700890
ISBN 9780691213279
0691213275