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Carnal thoughts: embodiment and moving image culture

Vivian Carol Sobchack

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Frontmatter
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS (page xi)
INTRODUCTION (page 1)
PART I. SENSIBLE SCENES
- 1. Breadcrumbs in the Forest: Three Meditations on Being Lost in Space (page 13)
- 2. Scary Women: Cinema, Surgery, and Special Effects (page 36)
- 3. What My Fingers Knew: The Cinesthetic Subject, or Vision in the Flesh (page 53)
- 4. The Expanded Gaze in Contracted Space: Happenstance, Hazard, and the Flesh of the World (page 85)
- 5. "Susie Scribbles": On Technology, Technë, and Writing Incarnate (page 109)
- 6. The Scene of the Screen: Envisioning Photographic, Cinematic, and Electronic "Presence" (page 135)
PART II. RESPONSIBLE VISIONS
- 7. Beating the Meat / Surviving the Text, or How to Get Out of the Century Alive (page 165)
- 8. Is Any Body Home? Embodied Imagination and Visible Evictions (page 179)
- 9. A Leg to Stand On: Prosthetics, Metaphor, and Materiality (page 205)
- 10. Inscribing Ethical Space: Ten Propositions on Death, Representation, and Documentary (page 226)
- 11. The Charge of the Real: Embodied Knowledge and Cinematic Consciousness (page 258)
- 12. The Passion of the Material: Toward a Phenomenology of Interobjectivity (page 286)
INDEX (page 319)

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Published: c2004

Publisher: University of California Press

ISBN(s)

9780520937826 (ebook)
9780520241299 (paper)
9780520241282 (hardcover)

Subject

Film & Media Studies