What is it about?
Many theories of the cinema have concentrated on the importance of the body of the spectator. This paper argues that the way we think about the body needs to be reformulated to better understand the relationship between film and the spectator. This is argued through an analysis of Gaspar Noe's film Enter the Void and a consideration of the Visible Human Project.
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Why is it important?
The relationship between film and the spectator has been the focus of an enormous amount of scholarship in film studies. Better understanding the relationship between film and the spectator is very important for film makers, but even more importantly for consumers of films, since it is oftentimes through engagement with cultural products that we understand more about ourselves.
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This paper was inspired by a very profound physical experience after watching Noe's Enter the Void.
Dr Greg Hainge
University of Queensland
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This page is a summary of: To Have Done With the Perspective of the (Biological) Body: Gaspar Noé’s Enter the Void, Somatic Film Theory and the Biocinematic Imaginary, Somatechnics, September 2012, Edinburgh University Press,
DOI: 10.3366/soma.2012.0063.
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