The Address of the Eye: A Phenomenology of Film Experience

The Address of the Eye: A Phenomenology of Film Experience
ISBN-10
0691008744
ISBN-13
9780691008745
Category
Performing Arts
Pages
330
Language
English
Published
1992
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Author
Vivian Sobchack

Description

Cinema is a sensuous object, but in our presence it becomes also a sensing, sensual, sense-making subject. This title 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.

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