Carnal Thoughts Embodiment and Moving Image Culture

Name: Carnal Thoughts Embodiment and Moving Image Culture
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ISBN: 9780520241299

ISBN-10: 0520241290

ISBN-13: 9780520241299

Edition: 2005

Authors: Vivian Sobchack

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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 Thoughtsshows 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 the movies; and the different ways…

Book details

List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 11/1/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 340
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 1.232



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Sensible Scenes



Breadcrumbs in the Forest: Three Meditations on Being Lost in Space



Scary Women: Cinema, Surgery, and Special Effects



What My Fingers Knew: The Cinesthetic Subject, or Vision in the Flesh



The Expanded Gaze in Contracted Space: Happenstance, Hazard, and the Flesh of the World



"Susie Scribbles": On Technology, Techne, and Writing Incarnate



The Scene of the Screen: Envisioning Photographic, Cinematic, and Electronic "Presence"



Responsible Visions



Beating the Meat / Surviving the Text, or How to Get Out of the Century Alive



Is Any Body Home? Embodied Imagination and Visible Evictions



A Leg to Stand On: Prosthetics, Metaphor, and Materiality



Inscribing Ethical Space: Ten Propositions on Death, Representation, and Documentary



The Charge of the Real: Embodied Knowledge and Cinematic Consciousness



The Passion of the Material: Toward a Phenomenology of Interobjectivity


Index