Cinema's bodily illusions : flying, floating, and hallucinating / Scott C. Richmond.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Richmond, Scott C., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--Psychological aspects.

Motion pictures.

Illusion in motion pictures.

Cinematography--Special effects.

Cinematography.

Motion pictures--Aesthetics.

Perception (Philosophy).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (236 pages, 8 pages of unnumbered plates) : illustrations, photographs

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis, Minnesota ; London, [England] : University of Minnesota Press, 2016.

Summary:

Do contemporary big-budget blockbuster films like Gravity move something in us that is fundamentally the same as what avant-garde and experimental films have done for more than a century?In a powerful challenge to mainstream film theory, Cinema's Bodily Illusions demonstrates that this is the case. Scott C.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title

Copyright

Contents

Introduction: Proprioceptive Aesthetics, or the Cinema

1 The Unfinished Business of Modernism: Anémic Cinéma

2 Beyond the Infinite, at Home in Finitude: 2001

3 Ecological Phenomenology: Merleau- Ponty and Gibson

4 Proprioception, the Écart: Koyaanisqatsi

5 The Body, Unbounded: Gravity

6 Aesthetics beyond the Phenomenal: The Flicker

Conclusion: The Technicity of the Cinema: Apparatuses and Technics

Acknowledgments

Notes

Index

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I

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Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed October 3, 2016).

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-4529-5186-1

OCLC:

958854197