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Carnal thoughts : embodiment and moving image culture /

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 ou...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Sobchack, Vivian Carol
Format: Government Document Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2004.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: 1. Breadcrumbs in the forest : three meditations on being lost in space
  • 2. Scary women : cinema, surgery, and special effects
  • 3. What my fingers knew : the cinesthetic subject, or vision in the flesh
  • 4. expanded gaze in contracted space : happenstance, hazard, and the flesh of the world
  • 5. "Susie scribbles" : on technology, Techne, and writing incarnate
  • 6. scene of the screen : envisioning photographic, cinematic, and electronic "presence"
  • 7. Beating the meat/surviving the text, or how to get out of the century alive
  • 8. Is any body home? : embodied imagination and visible evictions
  • 9. leg to stand on : prosthetics, metaphor, and materiality
  • 10. Inscribing ethical space : ten propositions on death, representation, and documentary
  • 11. charge of the real : embodied knowledge and cinematic consciousness.