Cinema is a sensuous object, but in our presence it becomes also a sensing, sensual, sense-making subject. This title challenges basic assumptions of current film theory that reduce film to an object of vision and the spectator to a victim of a deterministic cinematic apparatus.
A professor of theater arts shows how the film experience provides empirical insight into the reversible, dialectical, and signifying nature of that embodied vision we each live daily as both "mine" and "another's". In this attempt to account for cinematic intellegibility and signification, the author explores the possibility of human choice and expressive freedom within the bounds of history and culture.
