Cinema's Bodily Illusions

University of Minnesota Press
Cinema's Bodily Illusions

In a powerful challenge to mainstream filmtheory, Cinema's Bodily Illusions bridges genres and periods by focusingon cinema's power to evoke illusions: feeling like you're flying through space,experiencing 3D without glasses, or even hallucinating. Arguing that cinema isa technology to modulate perception, Scott C. Richmond demonstrates thatcinema's proprioceptive aesthetics make it an urgent site of contemporaryinquiry.