The Address of the Eye: A Phenomenology of Film Experience

Item Number

PN1995.S54

Author/Artist/Editor

Vivian Carol Sobchack

Type

Book, Hard Copy

Date

1992

Press/Publisher

Princeton University Press

Language

English

Description

Drawing on existential and semiotic phenomenology, and particularly the work of Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Sobchack shows how the film experience provides empirical insight into the reversible, dialectical, and signifying nature of that embodied vision we each live daily as both "mine" and "another's." In this attempt to account for cinematic intelligibility and