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Vivian Sobchack
Researcher at University of California, Los Angeles
Publications - 28
Citations - 2252
Vivian Sobchack is an academic researcher from University of California, Los Angeles. The author has contributed to research in topics: Film genre & Film studies. The author has an hindex of 17, co-authored 28 publications receiving 2062 citations. Previous affiliations of Vivian Sobchack include University of California, Santa Cruz.
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The Address of the Eye: A Phenomenology of Film Experience
TL;DR: Sobchack as discussed by the authors argued that the movie experience depends on two "viewers" viewing: the spectator and the film, each existing as both subject and object of vision.
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Carnal Thoughts: Embodiment and Moving Image Culture
TL;DR: Sobchack as discussed by the authors 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.
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Screening Space: The American Science Fiction Film
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors attempt to shape definitions of the American science fiction film, studying the connection between the films and social preconceptions, and discuss their import, seeking to rescue the genre from the neglect of film theorists.
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The Persistence of history : cinema, television, and the modern event
TL;DR: The Persistence of History as discussed by the authors examines how the moving image has completely altered traditional modes of historical thought and representation and explores a range of film and video texts, from The Ten Commandments to the Rodney King video, from the projected work of documentarian Errol Morris to Oliver Stone's JFK and Spielberg's Schindler's List.
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Living a ‘Phantom Limb’: On the Phenomenology of Bodily Integrity
TL;DR: Throughout, the reversible aspects of my two legs as ‘phantom’ and ‘real’, present and absent, and visible and invisible are explored — paying attention, as well, to the lived and linguistic sense the authors make of their bodies in ‘parts” and their bodies as “whole’.