Carnal Thoughts by Vivian Sobchack
Embodiment and Moving Image Culture
A collection of essays that reframes film and media spectatorship as an embodied, phenomenological experience, arguing that seeing is inseparable from sensing and doing. Through analyses of cinema, video, and digital images—from science fiction and horror to documentary—it explores how bodies, technologies, and screens mutually shape perception, memory, and ethics. Blending theory with close readings, it challenges disembodied approaches to visual culture and illuminates the material, sensual, and moral stakes of contemporary moving-image culture.
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- Published
- 2004
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- American
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- Pages
- 300-350
- Original Language
- English
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