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Visual Alterity: Seeing Difference in Cinema Volume 1

Visual Alterity: Seeing Difference in Cinema Volume 1

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ISBN10: 0252043707
ISBN13: 9780252043703
Publisher: Univ Of Illinois Pr
Published: Mar 30 2021
Pages: 280
Language: English
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.

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