Carnal Thoughts (eBook)

Embodiment and Moving Image Culture

Vivian Sobchack (Autor)

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2004
340 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-93782-6 (ISBN)

Infos

In these innovative essays, Vivian Sobchack considers the key role our bodies play in making sense of today's image-saturated culture. Emphasizing our corporeal rather than our intellectual engagements with film and other media, Carnal Thoughts shows how our experience always emerges through our senses and how our bodies are not just visible objects but also sense-making, visual subjects. Sobchack draws on both phenomenological philosophy and a broad range of popular sources to explore bodily experience in contemporary, moving-image culture. She examines how, through the conflation of cinema and surgery, we've all "e;had our eyes done"e;; why we are "e;moved"e; by the movies; and the different ways in which we inhabit photographic, cinematic, and electronic space. Carnal Thoughts provides a lively and engaging challenge to the mind/body split by demonstrating that the process of "e;making sense"e; requires an irreducible collaboration between our thoughts and our senses.

Inhalt

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INTRODUCTION

PART I. SENSIBLE SCENES
1. Breadcrumbs in the Forest: Three Meditations on Being
   Lost in Space
2. Scary Women: Cinema, Surgery, and Special Effects
3. What My Fingers Knew: The Cinesthetic Subject, or Vision
   in the Flesh
4. The Expanded Gaze in Contracted Space: Happenstance, Hazard, and
   the Flesh of the World
5. “Susie Scribbles”: On Technology, Technë, and Writing
   Incarnate
6. The Scene of the Screen: Envisioning Photographic, Cinematic, and
   Electronic “Presence”
   
PART II. RESPONSIBLE VISIONS
7. Beating the Meat/Surviving the Text, or How to Get Out of
   the Century Alive
8. Is Any Body Home? Embodied Imagination and
   Visible Evictions
9. A Leg to Stand On: Prosthetics, Metaphor, and Materiality
10. Inscribing Ethical Space: Ten Propositions on Death, Representation,
    and Documentary
11. The Charge of the Real: Embodied Knowledge and Cinematic
    Consciousness
12. The Passion of the Material: Toward a Phenomenology of
    Interobjectivity
    
INDEX

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.11.2004
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Tanzen / Tanzsport
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: carnality • cinema media studies • cinema scholars • cinematic experiences • Contemporary Culture • corporeal selves • emotional experiences • essay collection • Film Studies • Film theory • image saturated world • media consumption • mind body split • modern culture • modern philosophy • moving image culture • Nonfiction • nonfiction essays • phenomenological philosophy • photographic spaces • physical experiences • Sense Making • sensory experiences • subjects and objects • thoughts and senses
• ISBN-10: 0-520-93782-1 / 0520937821
• ISBN-13: 978-0-520-93782-6 / 9780520937826