Visual Alterity

Seeing Difference in Cinema

Randall Halle (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

280 Seiten

2021
University of Illinois Press (Verlag)
978-0-252-08568-0 (ISBN)

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Reconsidering the dynamics of perceptionUsing cinema to explore the visual aspects of alterity, Randall Halle analyzes how we become cognizant of each other and how we perceive and judge another person in a visual field. Halle draws on insights from philosophy and recent developments in cognitive and neuroscience to argue that there is no pure "natural" sight. We always see in a particular way, from a particular vantage point, and through a specific apparatus, and Halle shows how human beings have used cinema to experiment with the apparatus of seeing for over a century. Visual alterity goes beyond seeing difference to being conscious of how one sees difference. Investigating the process allows us to move from mere perception to apperception, or conscious perception.

Innovative and insightful, Visual Alterity merges film theory with philosophy and cutting-edge science to propose new ways of perceiving and knowing.

Randall Halle is the Director of the Film and Media Studies Program and the Klaus W. Jonas Professor of German Film and Cultural Studies at the University of Pittsburgh. His books include The Europeanization of Cinema: Interzones and Imaginative Communities and Queer Social Philosophy: Critical Readings from Kant to Adorno.

CoverTitleCopyrightContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. The Image of the Some Thing Other2. Self/Other Image: Hegel3. Phenomenology and Alterity: Seeing Is Always Seeing of Something Else4. Apparatus Theory Now More Than Ever!5. Cine-Cognition: Montage6. Cine-Cognition: Collage, Fragmentation, Integration7. Cine-Cognition: The Kippbild, Dis/Ambiguation8. The Apparatus of Difference: Xenophobia/philia9. The Cinematic Face: Interior Recognition, Gay Surface, Queer Multistability10. The Ethics of Visual Alterity: The Face of the Other, the Faceless OtherConclusionNotesBibliographyIndexBack cover

Erscheinungsdatum	06.04.2021
Zusatzinfo	15 color photographs, 9 black & white photographs, 2 charts
Verlagsort	Baltimore
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	399 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
ISBN-10	0-252-08568-X / 025208568X
ISBN-13	978-0-252-08568-0 / 9780252085680
Zustand	Neuware