Carnal Thoughts: Embodiment and Moving Image Culture

by Vivian Sobchack and Univ of California Pr

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520241290
• ISBN13: 9780520241299
• Release Date: November 2004
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.0"