Film phenomenologists such as Vivian Sobchack consider 'affect' to be the corporeal relationship between spectator and film; ... Project website: ...

Vivian Sobchack, born in 1940 in New York City, is one of the most influential American film theorists of the last 25 years.

Vivian Sobchack is Professor Emerita in the Department of Film, Television, and Digital Media and former Associate Dean of the UCLA School of Theater, Film, ...

Both Cornell and QuickTime boxes mobilize memory and desire through an aesthetics of absence: a privileging of the poetically and philosophically charged gap.

This dissertation is the product of a nomadic period characterized by long- and short- term commuting between small towns and larger cities ...

This article proposes a reading of the home movie as a reliquary of memory, where content and medium intersect to give rise to the particular experience ...

Vivian Carol Sobchack is an American cinema and media theorist and cultural critic. Sobchack's work on science fiction films and phenomenology of film is ...

Bukatman and Sobchack discuss the expansion of screen and media studies and its objects, the pleasures of interdisciplinarity, the accomplishments of ...

There is a definitive transferal of power within the home. Vivian Sobchack argues that while children are at times called “possessed”, in ...

After reading Sobchack's chapter I feel like I have a much better grounding in the phenomenological approach versus a psychoanalytic one, with the relative ...