Cinema's Bodily Illusions Richmond Scott C.
Cinema's Bodily Illusions Richmond Scott C. Do contemporary big-budget blockbuster films like Gravity move something in us that is fundamentally the same as what avant-garde and experimental films…
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Cinema's Bodily Illusions Richmond Scott C.
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? 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. In a powerful challenge to mainstream film theory, Cinema's Bodily Illusions demonstrates that this is the case.Scott C.
He presents a theory of cinema as a proprioceptive technology: cinema becomes art by modulating viewers' embodied sense of space. He argues that cinema is, first and foremost, a technology to modulate perception. 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
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