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(1973) Explorations in phenomenology, Den Haag, Nijhoff.

Cinema space

Alexander Sesonske

pp. 399-409

Faced with the peculiar question, "What is a film?" or "What is the nature of cinema?" the most obvious starting point may well be the most obvious fact about film: a film is something that we see. Things seen are, necessarily, spatial. But reasonable as it seems to insist then that a film must be a spatial object, one cannot stop there. For while other spatial objects merely occupy a position within space accessible to our vision, a film also provides its own space to replace that of our normal visual field. My concern here is to describe clearly this peculiar space that cinema presents for our experience—what I call cinema space.

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DOI: 10.1007/978-94-010-1999-6_19

Full citation:

Sesonske, A. (1973)., Cinema space, in D. Carr & E. Casey (eds.), Explorations in phenomenology, Den Haag, Nijhoff, pp. 399-409.

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