The Address of the Eye by Vivian Sobchack

The Address of the Eye by Vivian Sobchack

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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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The Address of the Eye by Vivian Sobchack

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.

Professor of cinema studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, Vivian Sobchack She is the author of several works on film, including The Address of the Eye: A Phenomenology of Film Experience, which won the Pilgrim Award for research in science fiction in 1995.

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ISBN 13 9780691008745
ISBN 10 0691008744
Title The Address of the Eye
Author Vivian Sobchack
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Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Princeton University Press
Year published 1991-12-23
Number of pages 354
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