Stanley Cavell, The World Viewed: Reflections on the Ontology of Film, Enlarged Edition (1979) – Cavell is interested in how we experience a film and insists on a sort of starting-over…
Amédée Ayfre, “Neo-Realism and Phenomenology,” in Cahiers du Cinéma: The 1950s: Neo-Realism, Hollywood, New Wave, ed. Jim Hillier: Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1985. Ayfre takes issue with the term “Neo-realism,”…
Vivian Sobchack, “Embodying Transcendence: On the Literal, the Material, and the Cinematic Sublime,” Material Religion 4 (2008): 194-203. Published 17 years after her important The Address of the Eye, this article…
Andrew Quicke, “Phenomenology and Film: An Examination of a Religious Approach to Film Theory by Henri Agel and Amédée Ayfre,” Journal of Media and Religion 4, Vol. 4 (2005): 235-250. Quicke…
Phenomenology’s Material Presence: Video, Vision, and Experience – Hezekiah’s project is a refreshing and unique one in film and cultural studies these days. She first aims to situate her approach…
The Address of the Eye: A Phenomenology of Film Experience – Like Allan Casebier’s book a year earlier, there is much to praise about Vivian Sobchack’s contribution to reinvigorating a…
Film and Phenomenology: Toward a Realist Theory of Cinematic Representation – Casebier’s work is an important one, if an imperfect one. Published at a time when theory was still more…
The Address of the Eye: A Phenomenology of Film Experience, Vivian Sobchack – Chapter 1 Given into the experience of being in the world are perception and expression, a correlational…
Precious Bodily Fluids 