The Address of the Eye: A Phenomenology of Film Experience

by Vivian Sobchack

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691008744
• ISBN13: 9780691008745
• Release Date: December 1991
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 354 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 9.1"