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"""The book offers a rare combination of phenomenology and psychoanalysis in describing what we do when view a film. The viewer emerges as the anxiously intimate spectator without whose responses cinema could not exist. Interweaving his theorization with a rich offering of film analyses, the author is inviting us to test our own cinematic experience against the book's interpretations."" --Horst Ruthrof, Emeritus Professor FAHA FICI, Murdoch University, Australia ""In this scintillating work, Patrick Fuery argues that film creates a new ego and cinema becomes not simply a different art form but an entirely new way of being, experiencing, and knowing. The cinema ego is sensuous and sentient. It creates new object relations and invites different terms - ""the projected familiar,"" ""introjected defamiliarization"" that open different intellectual and emotional vistas. ""To be a film spectator,"" he writes, ""is to take up an othered consciousness,"" and this brave and brilliant book provides its readers with the conceptual tools to engage this new otherness. A work for all of us to read."" --Christopher Bollas, Psychoanalyst and Independent Scholar, USA ""An extraordinary book and compulsory reading for all those interested in the visual history of the human body."" --Javier Moscoso, Research Professor of History and Philosophy of Science, Institute of Philosophy of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Spain, and author of Pain: A Cultural History (2012)"

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Patrick Fuery is Director and Professor of the Center for Creative and Cultural Industries, Chapman University, USA. He was previously Reader in Film, Royal Holloway, University of London, Professor of Film, Sussex University, UK. He is the author of 8 books in the areas of film, psychoanalysis, phenomenology, cultural theory, and visual cultures. He is currently working on a book on the phenomenology and psychoanalysis of wildness.

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