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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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