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Scott C. Richmond - Cinema´s Bodily Illusions: Flying, Floating, and Hallucinating - 9780816690961 - V9780816690961
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Cinema´s Bodily Illusions: Flying, Floating, and Hallucinating

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Description for Cinema´s Bodily Illusions: Flying, Floating, and Hallucinating Hardback. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: APFA; APFN. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 139 x 215 x 20. Weight in Grams: 340.

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 becomes ... Read more

Arguing against modernist habits of mind in film theory and aesthetics, and the attendant proclamations of cinema’s death or irrelevance, Richmond demonstrates that cinema’s proprioceptive aesthetics make it an urgent site of contemporary inquiry. 

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816690961
SKU
V9780816690961
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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
"In laying out his theory of proprioceptive aesthetics in cinema, Cinema’s Bodily Illusions makes a boldly provocative contribution to the study of bodies, film screens, and media technology. Rescuing cinematic illusion from the perjorative sense with which modernist film scholarship disparages it, Scott C. Richmond finds a visceral (rather than cerebral) thematization of the resonance between ordinary perception and cinematic ... Read more

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