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Title: The Address of the Eye Condition: New EAN: 9780691008745 ISBN: 9780691008745 Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Paperback Release Date: 23/12/1991 Item Height: 229mm Item Length: 152mm Item Weight: 510g Author: Vivian Sobchack Language: English Subtitle: A Phenomenology of Film Experience ISBN-10: 0691008744 Description: 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. Country/Region of Manufacture: US Genre: Films & TV Release Year: 1991
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