TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sobchack,Vivian
TI  - The Address of the Eye: A Phenomenology of Film Experience 
SN  - 9780691213279
AV  - PN1995 .S54 1992eb
U1  - 791.43/01 22
PY  - 2020///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ : 
PB  - Princeton University Press, 
KW  - Motion pictures
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Baudry, Jean-Louis
KW  - Derrida, Jacques
KW  - Gestalt psychology
KW  - Husserl, Edmund
KW  - Ihde, Don
KW  - Kennedy, John M
KW  - Lebenswelt
KW  - Madison, Gary
KW  - Oedipal phase
KW  - Symbolic order
KW  - Tausk, Victor
KW  - Wilden, Anthon
KW  - attention
KW  - blindness
KW  - cinematic apparatus
KW  - cyborg
KW  - editorial structures
KW  - embodied perception
KW  - formalism
KW  - hermeneutic relations
KW  - introceptive image
KW  - motion, cinematic
KW  - phenomenological method
KW  - point of view
KW  - qualified essence
KW  - transparency
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Figures --; Preface --; Acknowledgments --; CHAPTER ONE. Phenomenology and the Film Experience --; CHAPTER TWO. The Act of Being with One's Own Eyes --; CHAPTER THREE. Film's Body --; CHAPTER FOUR. The Address of the Eye --; Selected Bibliography --; Index; restricted access
N2  - Cinema is a sensuous object, but in our presence it becomes also a sensing, sensual, sense-making subject. Thus argues Vivian Sobchack as she challenges basic assumptions of current film theory that reduce film to an object of vision and the spectator to a victim of a deterministic cinematic apparatus. Maintaining that these premises ignore the material and cultural-historical situations of both the spectator and the film, the author makes the radical proposal that the cinematic experience depends on two "viewers" viewing: the spectator and the film, each existing as both subject and object of vision. Drawing on existential and semiotic phenomenology, and particularly on the work of Merleau-Ponty, Sobchack shows how the film experience provides empirical insight into the reversible, dialectical, and signifying nature of that embodied vision we each live daily as both "mine" and "another's." In this attempt to account for cinematic intelligibility and signification, the author explores the possibility of human choice and expressive freedom within the bounds of history and culture
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