Publisher: A.S. Barnes, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover.

The Limits of Infinity: The American Science Fiction Film 1950-75

Sobchack, Vivian

A S Barnes And Company Inc

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.

The Address of the Eye: A Phenomenology of Film Experience

Humor & Entertainment

Movies

Princeton University Press

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.

Looks at the developmentt of the science fiction film, analyzes major themes, and discusses the connection between popular culture and ideology

Screening Space: The American Science Fiction Film

UNKNO

Meta-Morphing: Visual Transformation and the Culture of Quick-Change

This volume explores what digital morphing means, both as a cultural practice specific to our times and as a link to a much broader history of images of human transformation.'

Arts & Photography

Univ. of Minnesota Press

Two thousand years ago, Ovid asked his readers to imagine metamorphoses in which men and women became flowers and beasts. Today, before our cinema-savvy eyes, people melt and re-form as altogether new creatures: they "morph." This volume explores what digital morphing means -- both as a cultural practice specific to our times and as a link to a much broader history of images of human transformation.
Meta-Morphing ranges over topics that include turn-of-the-century "quick-change" artists, Mesoamerican shamanic transformation, and cosmetic surgery; recent works such as Terminator 2, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Heavenly Creatures, and Forrest Gump; and the transformations imagined by Kafka, Proust, and Burroughs. The contributors look not only at the technical wizardry behind digital morphing, but also at the history and cultural concerns it expresses.

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

This text introduces students to the major aspects of film aesthetics, criticism, and history, while emphasizing the relationship between art, artists, and the film industry itself.

An Introduction to Film

Sobchack, Thomas

Watson-Guptill Pubns

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The Limits of Infinity: The American Science Fiction Film 1950-75

The Address of the Eye: A Phenomenology of Film Experience

The Address of the Eye: A Phenomenology of Film Experience

Screening Space: The American Science Fiction Film

Meta-Morphing: Visual Transformation and the Culture of Quick-Change

Meta-Morphing: Visual Transformation and the Culture of Quick-Change

An Introduction to Film