Carnal Thoughts: Embodiment and Moving Image Culture
by Vivian Sobchack
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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 our senses and how our bodies are not just visible objects but also sense-making, visual subjects. Sobchack draws on both phenomenological philosophy and a broad range of popular sources to explore show more bodily experience in contemporary, moving-image culture. She examines how, through the conflation of cinema and surgery, we've all "had our eyes done"; why we are "moved" by the movies; and the different ways in which we inhabit photographic, cinematic, and electronic space. Carnal Thoughts provides a lively and engaging challenge to the mind/body split by demonstrating that the process of "making sense" requires an irreducible collaboration between our thoughts and our senses. show lessTags
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A collection of essays in film and media studies, developing a phenomenological perspective questioning the split between body and mind, between thought and senses. Most of the essays address topics that are increasingly recognized in interaction design, such as embodiment, affect and aesthetics. However, Sobchack treats them in a way that is much more thoroughly grounded in cultural studies and philosophy. There are no "implications for design" in the book, to borrow a useful piece of irony from Paul Dourish, but the reader is rewarded with an appreciation of the conceptual and cultural depths underlying the relations between body and media. The relevance seems clear also for interactive media.
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- Genres
- Nonfiction, Philosophy, Sexuality and Gender Studies, History, Literature Studies and Criticism
- DDC/MDS
- 791.43 — Arts & recreation Recreation, sports, and performing arts Public performances Motion pictures, radio, television, podcasting Motion pictures
- LCC
- PN1995 .S544 — Language and Literature Literature (General) Literature (General) Drama Motion pictures
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- English
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