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About This Book
Reconsidering the dynamics of perception
Using cinema to explore the visual aspects of alterity, Randall Halle analyzes how we become cognizant of each other and how we perceive and judge another person in a visual field. Halle draws on insights from philosophy and recent developments in cognitive and neuroscience to argue that there is no pure "natural" sight. We always see in a particular way, from a particular vantage point, and through a specific apparatus, and Halle shows how human beings have used cinema to experiment with the apparatus of seeing for over a century. Visual alterity goes beyond seeing difference to being conscious of how one sees difference. Investigating the process allows us to move from mere perception to apperception, or conscious perception.
Innovative and insightful, Visual Alterity merges film theory with philosophy and cutting-edge science to propose new ways of perceiving and knowing.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. The Image of the Some Thing Other
- 2. Self/Other Image: Hegel
- 3. Phenomenology and Alterity: Seeing Is Always Seeing of Something Else
- 4. Apparatus Theory Now More Than Ever!
- 5. Cine-Cognition: Montage
- 6. Cine-Cognition: Collage, Fragmentation, Integration
- 7. Cine-Cognition: The Kippbild, Dis/Ambiguation
- 8. The Apparatus of Difference: Xenophobia/philia
- 9. The Cinematic Face: Interior Recognition, Gay Surface, Queer Multistability
- 10. The Ethics of Visual Alterity: The Face of the Other, the Faceless Other
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Back Cover