Carnal Thoughts Embodiment and Moving Image Culture

• Main Author: Sobchack, Vivian Carol
• Format: eBook Book
• Language: English
• Published: Berkeley University of California Press 02.10.2004
• Edition: 1
• Subjects: Body; carnality; Cinema; cinema media studies; cinema scholars; cinematic experiences; contemporary culture; corporeal selves; Embodiment; emotional experiences; essay collection; Film Studies; film theory; image saturated world; media consumption; mind body split; modern culture; modern philosophy; Motion pictures; Motion pictures > Philosophy; Motion pictures > Psychological aspects; moving image culture; nonfiction; nonfiction essays; PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / General; phenomenological philosophy; Philosophy; photographic spaces; physical experiences; Psychological aspects; sense making; sensory experiences; subjects and objects; thoughts and senses; Visual culture; nonfiction essays; carnality; essay collection; media consumption; corporeal selves; mind body split; phenomenological philosophy; subjects and objects; film studies; modern culture; image saturated world; physical experiences; contemporary culture; film theory; sensory experiences; moving image culture; sense making; nonfiction; cinematic experiences; photographic spaces; cinema scholars; thoughts and senses; cinema media studies; emotional experiences; modern philosophy
• ISBN: 9780520241282; 0520241282; 0520241290; 9780520241299
• DOI: 10.1525/9780520937826

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 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.