Hitchcock and the Cinema of Sensations Embodied Film Theory and Cinematic Reception

Informationen zum Autor Paul Elliott teaches in the Department of Literature! Film and Theatre Studies at the University of Essex. When we talk of 'seeing' a film, we do not refer to a purely visual experience. Rather, to understand what we see on screen, we rely as much on non-visual senses as we do on sight. This book rethinks the body in the cinema seat, charting the emergence of embodied film theory and the developments in philosophy, neuroscience, and film theory. Zusammenfassung When we talk of 'seeing' a film, we do not refer to a purely visual experience. Rather, to understand what we see on screen, we rely as much on non-visual senses as we do on sight. This book rethinks the body in the cinema seat, charting the emergence of embodied film theory and the developments in philosophy, neuroscience, and film theory. Inhaltsverzeichnis IntroductionPART 1: THE THEORY 1. Film and Embodiment: New Sensations in Spectatorship 2. Philosophy and Embodiment: Re-figuring the Corporeal Self3. Neuroscience and Embodiment: Exploring the Thinking FleshPART 2: THE FILMS 4. On Hitchcock5. On Taste and Digestion 6. On Smell7. On Hearing 8. On TouchingConclusion

Product details

• Authors: Paul Elliott, Elliott Paul
• Publisher: Tauris, I.B.
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 30.08.2011
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV
• EAN: 9781848855878
• ISBN: 978-1-84885-587-8
• Pages: 248
• Series: International Library of Visual Culture; International Library of Visua; International Library of Visual Culture; International Library of Visua
• Subjects: PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism; Individual Film Directors, Film-Makers; Film Theory & Criticism; PERFORMING ARTS / Individual Director; Film history, theory or criticism