Literature

Carnal Thoughts

Management No. BFM011446

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Contents: ACKNOWLEDGMENTS = xi INTRODUCTION = 1 PART I. SENSIBLE SCENES 1. Breadcrumbs in the Forest: Three Meditations on Being Lost in Space = 13 2. Scary Women: Cinema, Surgery, and Special Effects = 36 3. What My Fingers Knew: The Cinesthetic Subject, or Vision in the Flesh = 53 4. The Expanded Gaze in Contracted Space: Happenstance, Hazard, and the Flesh of the World = 85 5. "Susie Scribbles": On Technology, Techne, and Writing = 109 6. The Scene of the Screen: Envisioning Photographic, Cinematic, and Electronic "Presence" = 135 PART II. RESPONSIBLE VISIONS 7. Beating the Meat/Surviving the Text, or How to Get Out of the Century Alive = 165 8. Is Any Body Home? Embodied Imagination and Visible Evictions = 179 9. A Leg to Stand On: Prosthetics, Metaphor, and Materiality = 205 10. Inscribing Ethical Space: Ten Propositions on Death, Representation, and Documentary = 226 11. The Charge of the Real: Embodied Knowledge and Cinematic Consciousness = 258 12. The Passion of the Material: Toward a Phenomenology of Interobjectivity = 286 Index = 319