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Cinema´s Bodily Illusions: Flying, Floating, and Hallucinating
Scott C. Richmond
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Paperback. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: APFA; APFN. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 191 x 217 x 18. Weight in Grams: 292.
Do contemporary big-budget blockbuster films like Gravity move something in us that is fundamentally the same as what avant-garde and experimental films have done for more than a century? In a powerful challenge to mainstream film theory, Cinema's Bodily Illusions demonstrates that this is the case. Scott C. Richmond bridges genres and periods by focusing, most palpably, on cinema's power to evoke illusions: feeling like you're flying through space, experiencing 3D without glasses, or even hallucinating. He argues that cinema is, first and foremost, a technology to modulate perception. He presents a theory of cinema as a proprioceptive technology: cinema ... Read more
Do contemporary big-budget blockbuster films like Gravity move something in us that is fundamentally the same as what avant-garde and experimental films have done for more than a century? In a powerful challenge to mainstream film theory, Cinema's Bodily Illusions demonstrates that this is the case. Scott C. Richmond bridges genres and periods by focusing, most palpably, on cinema's power to evoke illusions: feeling like you're flying through space, experiencing 3D without glasses, or even hallucinating. He argues that cinema is, first and foremost, a technology to modulate perception. He presents a theory of cinema as a proprioceptive technology: cinema ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
292g
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816690992
SKU
V9780816690992
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About Scott C. Richmond
Scott C. Richmond is assistant professor of cinema and digital media in the Cinema Studies Institute at the University of Toronto.
Reviews for Cinema´s Bodily Illusions: Flying, Floating, and Hallucinating
Richmond's theory and method offers an important tool for doing some of the critical work that spectator theory cannot. Cinema's Bodily Illusions may become an influential vein within postmodern phenomenology. It offers a critical method for understanding the aesthetic moment outside of representational blinders. -PopMatters In laying out his theory of proprioceptive aesthetics in cinema, Cinema's Bodily Illusions makes ... Read more