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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 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.Product Identifiers
PublisherPrinceton University Press
ISBN-139780691008745
eBay Product ID (ePID)88941622
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Book TitleThe Address of the Eye: a Phenomenology of Film Experience
AuthorVivian Sobchack
FormatPaperback
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1991
Number of Pages354 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height229mm
Item Width152mm
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Title_AuthorVivian Sobchack
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States