Vivian Sobchack
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 226114 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Vivian Sobchack |
| NOMBRES | Vivian |
| APELLIDO | Sobchack |
| FIRMA | SOBCHACK V |
| AFILIACIONES | University of California, Los Angeles |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 28 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 66 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 28 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1979 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Technics
The Key Debates series was launched in 2010 with the aim of revisiting "the central issues that continue to animate thinking about film and audiovisual media," which we have now done across ten volumes.All of these have followed a pattern of reexamining foundational texts and issues, while also investigating new lines of transmission and interpretation.Our book series' dual interest in foundations and novel lines of inquiry is demonstrated by the…
The Address of the Eye
Choreography for One, Two, and Three Legs (A phenomenological meditation in movements)
‘Choreography for One, Two, and Three Legs’ approaches the intentional formation and performance of bodily movement and expression from the various perspectives of individuals who are ‘differently abled’. Exploring what it is for a non-dancer to experience various rhythms, movements and spaces with crutches, prosthetic leg, and cane, the essay interweaves phenomenological description and interpretation of suddenly defamiliarized daily activities …
Sci-Why
Living a 'Phantom Limb
This article is a phenomenological exploration and description of certain selected aspects of living the specificities and conundrums posed by what is usually, if problematically, called a 'phantom limb'. Using my own body as an 'intimate laboratory', I attend to the dynamics and mutability of the supposed 'phantom', both during the post-operative period of the above-the-knee amputation of my left leg as well as after I began to use and incorpora…
Animation and automation, or, the incredible effortfulness of being
This essay explores the shifting historical etymology and vexed meanings of ‘animation’ as the term entails both movement and life (one often, but not always, the sign of the other) and is expanded by its encounters with technology. Indeed, the distinction between movement and life becomes increasingly ambiguous as animation is transformed first by automated mechanical processes that replace human movement and labour and then by what seem to be a…
Embodying transcendence
This essay looks at the phenomenological relation between immanence and transcendence, the material and the immaterial, in films focused on “spiritual” or “religious” subject matter and themes. These films employ a variety of cinematic strategies meant not only to represent but also to present and solicit transcendent or “spiritual” states of being from the viewer. Each of these strategies is also an act of belief about the relationship between i…
Journal of Visual Culture
Presentifying” Film and Media Feminism
Carnal Thoughts
In these innovative essays, Vivian Sobchack 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, Carnal Thoughts shows how our experience always emerges through our senses and how our bodies are not just visible objects but also sense-making, visual subjects. Sobchack draws on both phenomenological philosophy and a b…
Recent Approaches to Film Feminisms
Remembering Paige Baty, III
Theory & Event - Volume 1, Issue 4, 1997
The Insistent Fringe
Using the form of cinematic montage, this essay explores the nature of historical consciousness in a mass-mediated culture where historical discourse takes the form of both showing and saying, moving images and written words. The title draws upon and argues with Roland Barthes's critique of the duplicity of the "insistent fringes" that supposedly reduce and naturalize "Roman-ness" to fringed hair in popular historical film. Barthes presumes a "ce…
Democratic franchise and the electronic frontier
Beating the Meat/Surviving the Text, or How to Get Out of this Century Alive
New Chinese Cinemas
New Chinese Cinemas analyses the changing forms and significance of filmmaking in the People's Republic of China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong since the end of the Cultural Revolution, with a particular emphasis on how film comments on the profound social changes that have occurred in East Asia over the past two decades. Considering in detail both conservative and progressive stances on economic 'modernisation', it also demonstrates how film has been an…
The Address of the Eye
New Age Mutant Ninja Hackers
Research Article| October 01 1993 New Age Mutant Ninja Hackers: Reading Mondo 2000 Vivian Sobchack Vivian Sobchack Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1993) 92 (4): 569–584. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-92-4-569 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Vivian Sobchack; New Age Mutant Ninja Hackers: Reading Mondo 2000. South Atlantic Quart…
The Address of the Eye
Cinema is a sensuous object, but in our presence it becomes also a sensing, sensual, sense-making subject. Thus argues Vivian Sobchack as she challenges basic assumptions of current film theory that reduce film to an object of vision and the spectator to a victim of a deterministic cinematic apparatus. Maintaining that these premises ignore the material and cultural-historical situations of both the spectator and the film, the author makes the ra…
In Response To Jean Baudrillard
The Occidental Tourist”
Research Article| September 01 1990 “The Occidental Tourist”: Steve Fagin's Virtual Voyage for Armchair Travelers Vivian Sobchack Vivian Sobchack Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Camera Obscura (1990) 8 (3 (24)): 46–63. https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-8-3_24-46 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Vivian Sobchack; “The Occidental Tourist”: Steve Fagin's Virtual Voyage for Armchair Tra…
Surge and Splendor
Research Article| January 01 1990 "Surge and Splendor": A Phenomenology of the Hollywood Historical Epic Vivian Sobchack Vivian Sobchack Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Representations (1990) 29: 24–49. https://doi.org/10.2307/2928417 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Ci…
INtroduction
Child/Alien/Father
Research Article| December 01 1986 Child/Alien/Father: Patriarchal Crisis and Generic Exchange Vivian Sobchack Vivian Sobchack Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Camera Obscura (1986) 5 (3 (15)): 6–35. https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-5-3_15-6 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Vivian Sobchack; Child/Alien/Father: Patriarchal Crisis and Generic Exchange. Camera Obscura 1 December 1986;…
Meta-Morphing
Living a 'Phantom Limb
This article is a phenomenological exploration and description of certain selected aspects of living the specificities and conundrums posed by what is usually, if problematically, called a 'phantom limb'. Using my own body as an 'intimate laboratory', I attend to the dynamics and mutability of the supposed 'phantom', both during the post-operative period of the above-the-knee amputation of my left leg as well as after I began to use and incorpora…
Animation and automation, or, the incredible effortfulness of being
This essay explores the shifting historical etymology and vexed meanings of ‘animation’ as the term entails both movement and life (one often, but not always, the sign of the other) and is expanded by its encounters with technology. Indeed, the distinction between movement and life becomes increasingly ambiguous as animation is transformed first by automated mechanical processes that replace human movement and labour and then by what seem to be a…
Embodying transcendence
This essay looks at the phenomenological relation between immanence and transcendence, the material and the immaterial, in films focused on “spiritual” or “religious” subject matter and themes. These films employ a variety of cinematic strategies meant not only to represent but also to present and solicit transcendent or “spiritual” states of being from the viewer. Each of these strategies is also an act of belief about the relationship between i…
Surge and Splendor
Research Article| January 01 1990 "Surge and Splendor": A Phenomenology of the Hollywood Historical Epic Vivian Sobchack Vivian Sobchack Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Representations (1990) 29: 24–49. https://doi.org/10.2307/2928417 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Ci…
Child/Alien/Father
Research Article| December 01 1986 Child/Alien/Father: Patriarchal Crisis and Generic Exchange Vivian Sobchack Vivian Sobchack Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Camera Obscura (1986) 5 (3 (15)): 6–35. https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-5-3_15-6 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Vivian Sobchack; Child/Alien/Father: Patriarchal Crisis and Generic Exchange. Camera Obscura 1 December 1986;…
Democratic franchise and the electronic frontier
The Insistent Fringe
Using the form of cinematic montage, this essay explores the nature of historical consciousness in a mass-mediated culture where historical discourse takes the form of both showing and saying, moving images and written words. The title draws upon and argues with Roland Barthes's critique of the duplicity of the "insistent fringes" that supposedly reduce and naturalize "Roman-ness" to fringed hair in popular historical film. Barthes presumes a "ce…
Beyond Visual Aids
Studies is rather like standing before the confluence of the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers. The observer is confronted with the necessity of stepping into two rivers at once or not getting wet at all. Film Studies is as integral a part of American Studies as American Studies is a part of Film Studies; the separate currents are so commingled at their meeting point that the waters can no longer be clearly distinguished. A look through the convention …
Sci-Why
Beating the Meat/Surviving the Text, or How to Get Out of this Century Alive
New Age Mutant Ninja Hackers
Research Article| October 01 1993 New Age Mutant Ninja Hackers: Reading Mondo 2000 Vivian Sobchack Vivian Sobchack Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1993) 92 (4): 569–584. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-92-4-569 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Vivian Sobchack; New Age Mutant Ninja Hackers: Reading Mondo 2000. South Atlantic Quart…
Toward inhabited space
The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
Wrath has attracted enormous and enduring critical and popular attention.' Yet, in some ways it has also remained a neglected film, a film obscured by the shadow of its illustrious parentage (John Ford out of John Steinbeck) and by its generic absorption into that body of culturally significant art representative of and concerned with Depression America. Certainly, The Grapes of Wrath was and still is a highly visible film; its popularity as a cl…
The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
Wrath has attracted enormous and enduring critical and popular attention.' Yet, in some ways it has also remained a neglected film, a film obscured by the shadow of its illustrious parentage (John Ford out of John Steinbeck) and by its generic absorption into that body of culturally significant art representative of and concerned with Depression America. Certainly, The Grapes of Wrath was and still is a highly visible film; its popularity as a cl…
Beyond Visual Aids
Studies is rather like standing before the confluence of the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers. The observer is confronted with the necessity of stepping into two rivers at once or not getting wet at all. Film Studies is as integral a part of American Studies as American Studies is a part of Film Studies; the separate currents are so commingled at their meeting point that the waters can no longer be clearly distinguished. A look through the convention …
Toward inhabited space
The National Conference of the Society for Cinema Studies The University of California, Los Angeles June 28‐July 2, 1982
Child/Alien/Father
Research Article| December 01 1986 Child/Alien/Father: Patriarchal Crisis and Generic Exchange Vivian Sobchack Vivian Sobchack Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Camera Obscura (1986) 5 (3 (15)): 6–35. https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-5-3_15-6 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Vivian Sobchack; Child/Alien/Father: Patriarchal Crisis and Generic Exchange. Camera Obscura 1 December 1986;…
INtroduction
The Occidental Tourist”
Research Article| September 01 1990 “The Occidental Tourist”: Steve Fagin's Virtual Voyage for Armchair Travelers Vivian Sobchack Vivian Sobchack Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Camera Obscura (1990) 8 (3 (24)): 46–63. https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-8-3_24-46 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Vivian Sobchack; “The Occidental Tourist”: Steve Fagin's Virtual Voyage for Armchair Tra…
Surge and Splendor
Research Article| January 01 1990 "Surge and Splendor": A Phenomenology of the Hollywood Historical Epic Vivian Sobchack Vivian Sobchack Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Representations (1990) 29: 24–49. https://doi.org/10.2307/2928417 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Ci…
In Response To Jean Baudrillard
The Address of the Eye
Cinema is a sensuous object, but in our presence it becomes also a sensing, sensual, sense-making subject. Thus argues Vivian Sobchack as she challenges basic assumptions of current film theory that reduce film to an object of vision and the spectator to a victim of a deterministic cinematic apparatus. Maintaining that these premises ignore the material and cultural-historical situations of both the spectator and the film, the author makes the ra…
The Address of the Eye
New Age Mutant Ninja Hackers
Research Article| October 01 1993 New Age Mutant Ninja Hackers: Reading Mondo 2000 Vivian Sobchack Vivian Sobchack Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1993) 92 (4): 569–584. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-92-4-569 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Vivian Sobchack; New Age Mutant Ninja Hackers: Reading Mondo 2000. South Atlantic Quart…
New Chinese Cinemas
New Chinese Cinemas analyses the changing forms and significance of filmmaking in the People's Republic of China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong since the end of the Cultural Revolution, with a particular emphasis on how film comments on the profound social changes that have occurred in East Asia over the past two decades. Considering in detail both conservative and progressive stances on economic 'modernisation', it also demonstrates how film has been an…
Democratic franchise and the electronic frontier
Beating the Meat/Surviving the Text, or How to Get Out of this Century Alive
Remembering Paige Baty, III
Theory & Event - Volume 1, Issue 4, 1997
The Insistent Fringe
Using the form of cinematic montage, this essay explores the nature of historical consciousness in a mass-mediated culture where historical discourse takes the form of both showing and saying, moving images and written words. The title draws upon and argues with Roland Barthes's critique of the duplicity of the "insistent fringes" that supposedly reduce and naturalize "Roman-ness" to fringed hair in popular historical film. Barthes presumes a "ce…
Carnal Thoughts
In these innovative essays, Vivian Sobchack 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, Carnal Thoughts shows how our experience always emerges through our senses and how our bodies are not just visible objects but also sense-making, visual subjects. Sobchack draws on both phenomenological philosophy and a b…
Recent Approaches to Film Feminisms
Presentifying” Film and Media Feminism
Journal of Visual Culture
Embodying transcendence
This essay looks at the phenomenological relation between immanence and transcendence, the material and the immaterial, in films focused on “spiritual” or “religious” subject matter and themes. These films employ a variety of cinematic strategies meant not only to represent but also to present and solicit transcendent or “spiritual” states of being from the viewer. Each of these strategies is also an act of belief about the relationship between i…
Animation and automation, or, the incredible effortfulness of being
This essay explores the shifting historical etymology and vexed meanings of ‘animation’ as the term entails both movement and life (one often, but not always, the sign of the other) and is expanded by its encounters with technology. Indeed, the distinction between movement and life becomes increasingly ambiguous as animation is transformed first by automated mechanical processes that replace human movement and labour and then by what seem to be a…
Living a 'Phantom Limb
This article is a phenomenological exploration and description of certain selected aspects of living the specificities and conundrums posed by what is usually, if problematically, called a 'phantom limb'. Using my own body as an 'intimate laboratory', I attend to the dynamics and mutability of the supposed 'phantom', both during the post-operative period of the above-the-knee amputation of my left leg as well as after I began to use and incorpora…
Sci-Why
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