... regulates the relationship between the spectator’s body and the character’s body. The “bodily machine” of cinema is a virtual entity that, as it were, replaces the eyes and the body of the spectators ... the act of seeing and touching the (filmic) world. This implies the mediation of a third quasi -body — the “film -body — which as 155 UPSIDE-DOWN CINEMA: (DIS)SIMULATION OF THE BODY IN THE ... couch, the body still presents itself against the background of the former space, and, as far as the unseen parts of the body are concerned, right and left preserve their former localization to the...