Pasts of the body

... 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 CIN...

... opti- mism either, of course; for the darkening of the world, the fl ight of the gods, the destruction of the earth, the reduc- tion of human beings into a mass, the hatred and mistrust of everything ... of the body. ” 7 While acknowledging the merits of these criticisms, the goal of this book is to address the question of why Heidegger may have...