Carnal thoughts
Subtitle: embodiment and moving image culture
By: Vivian Sobchack.
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 328
Subjects: Motion pictures -- Philosophy; Motion pictures -- Psychological aspects
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Breadcrumbs in the forest: three meditations on being lost in space; title: Scary women: cinema, surgery, and special effects; title: What my fingers knew: the cinesthetic subject, or vision in the flesh; title: The expanded gaze in contracted space: happenstance, hazard, and the flesh of the world; title: "Susie scribbles": on technology, technë, and writing incarnate; title: The scene of the screen: envisioning photographic, cinematic, and electronic "presence"; title: Beating the meat/surviving the text, or how to get out of the century alive; title: Is any body home? Embodied imagination and visible evictions; title: A leg to stand on: prosthetics, metaphor, and materiality; title: Inscribing ethical space: ten propositions on death, representation, and documentary; title: The charge of the real: embodied knowledge and cinematic consciousness; title: The passion of the material: toward a phenomenology of interobjectivity.