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OverviewIn a powerful challenge to mainstream filmtheory, Cinema's Bodily Illusions bridges genres and periods by focusingon cinema's power to evoke illusions: feeling like you're flying through space,experiencing 3D without glasses, or even hallucinating. Arguing that cinema isa technology to modulate perception, Scott C. Richmond demonstrates thatcinema's proprioceptive aesthetics make it an urgent site of contemporaryinquiry. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Scott C. RichmondPublisher: University of Minnesota Press Imprint: University of Minnesota Press Dimensions: Width: 14.00cm , Height: 3.80cm , Length: 21.60cm Weight: 0.295kg ISBN: 9780816690992ISBN 10: 0816690995 Pages: 264 Publication Date: 15 October 2016 Audience: College/higher education , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Temporarily unavailable  The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you. Table of ContentsReviewsIn laying out his theory of proprioceptive aesthetics in cinema, Cinema's Bodily Illusions makes a boldly provocative contribution to the study of bodies, film screens, and media technology. Rescuing cinematic illusion from the perjorative sense with which modernist film scholarship disparages it, Scott C. Richmond finds a visceral (rather than cerebral) thematization of the resonance between ordinary perception and cinematic perception.-Jennifer M. Barker, author of The Tactile Eye: Touch and the Cinematic Experience - Richmond's theory and method offers an important tool for doing some of the critical work that spectator theory cannot. Cinema's Bodily Illusions may become an influential vein within postmodern phenomenology. It offers a critical method for understanding the aesthetic moment outside of representational blinders. -PopMatters """In laying out his theory of proprioceptive aesthetics in cinema, Cinema’s Bodily Illusions makes a boldly provocative contribution to the study of bodies, film screens, and media technology. Rescuing cinematic illusion from the perjorative sense with which modernist film scholarship disparages it, Scott C. Richmond finds a visceral (rather than cerebral) thematization of the resonance between ordinary perception and cinematic perception.""—Jennifer M. Barker, author of The Tactile Eye: Touch and the Cinematic Experience ""Richmond’s theory and method offers an important tool for doing some of the critical work that spectator theory cannot. Cinema’s Bodily Illusions may become an influential vein within postmodern phenomenology. It offers a critical method for understanding the aesthetic moment outside of representational blinders.""—PopMatters" In laying out his theory of proprioceptive aesthetics in cinema, Cinema s Bodily Illusions makes a boldly provocative contribution to the study of bodies, film screens, and media technology. Rescuing cinematic illusion from the perjorative sense with which modernist film scholarship disparages it, Scott C. Richmond finds a visceral (rather than cerebral) thematization of the resonance between ordinary perception and cinematic perception. Jennifer M. Barker, author of The Tactile Eye: Touch and the Cinematic Experience Author InformationScott C. Richmond is assistant professor of cinema and digital media in the Cinema Studies Institute at the University of Toronto. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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