{"product_id":"cinemas-bodily-illusions-flying-floating-and-hallucinating-hardback-9780816690961","title":"Cinema's Bodily Illusions; Flying, Floating, and Hallucinating (Hardback) 9780816690961","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eCinema's Bodily Illusions\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eFlying, Floating, and Hallucinating\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eScott C. Richmond (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780816690961\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 15 October 2016\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e264 pages, 28\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 3.8 cm, 0.666 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"In laying out his theory of proprioceptive aesthetics in cinema, \u003ci\u003eCinema’s Bodily Illusions\u003c\/i\u003e makes a boldly provocative contribution to the study of bodies, film screens, and media technology. Rescuing cinematic illusion from the perjorative sense with which modernist film scholarship disparages it, Scott C. Richmond finds a visceral (rather than cerebral) thematization of the resonance between ordinary perception and cinematic perception.\"-Jennifer M. Barker, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Tactile Eye: Touch and the Cinematic Experience\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Richmond’s theory and method offers an important tool for doing some of the critical work that spectator theory cannot. \u003ci\u003eCinema’s Bodily Illusions\u003c\/i\u003e may become an influential vein within postmodern phenomenology. It offers a critical method for understanding the aesthetic moment outside of representational blinders.\"-\u003ci\u003ePopMatters\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDo contemporary big-budget blockbuster films like \u003ci\u003eGravity\u003c\/i\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003eCinema’s Bodily Illusions\u003c\/i\u003e demonstrates that this is the case. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eScott C. Richmond bridges genres and periods by focusing, most palpably, on cinema’s power to evoke illusions: feeling like you’re flying through space, experiencing 3D without glasses, or even hallucinating. He argues that cinema is, first and foremost, a technology to modulate perception. He presents a theory of cinema as a \u003ci\u003eproprioceptive\u003c\/i\u003e technology: cinema becomes art by modulating viewers’ embodied sense of space. It works primarily not at the level of the intellect but at the level of the body. Richmond develops his theory through examples of direct perceptual illusion in cinema: hallucinatory flicker phenomena in Tony Conrad’s \u003ci\u003eThe Flicker\u003c\/i\u003e, eerie depth effects in Marcel Duchamp’s \u003ci\u003eAnÉmic CinÉma\u003c\/i\u003e, the illusion of bodily movement through onscreen space in Stanley Kubrick’s \u003ci\u003e2001\u003c\/i\u003e, Godfrey Reggio’s \u003ci\u003eKoyaanisqatsi\u003c\/i\u003e, and Alfonso CuarÓn’s \u003ci\u003eGravity\u003c\/i\u003e. In doing so he combines insights from Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology of perception and James J. Gibson’s ecological approach to perception. The result is his distinctive ecological phenomenology, which allows us to refocus on the cinema’s perceptual, rather than representational, power.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eArguing against modernist habits of mind in film theory and aesthetics, and the attendant proclamations of cinema’s death or irrelevance, Richmond demonstrates that cinema’s proprioceptive aesthetics make it an urgent site of contemporary inquiry. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003cbr\u003e Introduction. Proprioceptive Aesthetics, or the Cinema\u003cbr\u003e 1. The Unfinished Business of Modernism: \u003ci\u003eAnÉmic CinÉma\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 2. Beyond the Infinite, At Home in Finitude: \u003ci\u003e2001\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 3. Ecological Phenomenology: Merleau-Ponty and Gibson\u003cbr\u003e 4. Proprioception, the \u003ci\u003e\u0026amp;Eacute;cart\u003c\/i\u003e: \u003ci\u003eKoyaanisqatsi\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 5. The Body, Unbounded: \u003ci\u003eGravity\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 6. Aesthetics beyond the Phenomenal: \u003ci\u003eThe Flicker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion. The Technicity of the Cinema: Apparatuses and Technics\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Univ Of Minnesota Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52570080280856,"sku":"9780816690961","price":59.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/cinemas-bodily-illusions-flying-floating-and-hallucinating-hardback-9780816690961","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}