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Visual Alterity: Seeing Difference in Cinema Volume 1
Contributor(s): Halle, Randall (Author)
ISBN: 0252043707     ISBN-13: 9780252043703
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
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Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: March 2021
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BISAC Categories:
- Performing Arts | Film - History & Criticism
- Psychology | Cognitive Psychology & Cognition
- Philosophy | Movements - Phenomenology
Dewey: 791.430
LCCN: 2020032136
Physical Information: 280 pages
 
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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.