{"product_id":"cinemas-bodily-illusions-scott-c-richmond-9780816690992","title":"Cinema's Bodily Illusions: Flying, Floating, and Hallucinating","description":"\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\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\u003eAn mic Cin ma\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 Cuar n'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\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Scott C. Richmond\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0816690995\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780816690992\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Minnesota Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/15\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 264\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.65lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.70d","brand":"Scott C. Richmond","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44138422599935,"sku":"9780816690992","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_ccc264b1-79a7-4227-8992-2ba3f5e402ef.jpg?v=1687899582","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/cinemas-bodily-illusions-scott-c-richmond-9780816690992","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}