28%OFF
Carnal Thoughts: Embodiment and Moving Image Culture
Vivian Sobchack
€ 40.99
€ 29.35
FREE Delivery in Ireland
Description for Carnal Thoughts: Embodiment and Moving Image Culture
Paperback. Num Pages: 340 pages. BIC Classification: JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 476. Embodiment and Moving Image Culture. 340 pages. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: JHMC. Dimension: 229 x 156 x 23. Weight: 480.
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 "had our eyes done"; why we are "moved" by ... Read more
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 "had our eyes done"; why we are "moved" by ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of California Press
Number of pages
340
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Condition
New
Weight
466g
Number of Pages
340
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520241299
SKU
V9780520241299
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1
About Vivian Sobchack
Vivian Sobchack is Professor and Associate Dean in the School of Theater, Film, and Television at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is the author of Screening Space: The American Science Fiction Film (1997) and The Address of the Eye: A Phenomenology of Film Experience (1992) and the editor of Meta-Morphing: Visual Transformation and the Culture of Quick Change ... Read more
Reviews for Carnal Thoughts: Embodiment and Moving Image Culture
"Carnal Thoughts wonderfully conveys the phenomenological aim of Sobchack's work. It is an important contribution to the field. It is also accessible and almost scandalously fun to read. The voice of a wise, eloquent, and witty woman emerges from these pages and keeps the reader constantly engaged." - Linda Williams, author of Playing the Race Card; "Powerfully written and movingly ... Read more