How It Feels: Black Screen as Negative Event in Early Cinema and 9/11 Films.

In this essay I engage the perspective of film phenomenology to analyze the black screen as a frame-breaking negative experience, based on an understanding of cinema as event. Relying on Vivian Sobchack's phenomenological approach and taking inspiration from Cecil M. Hepworth's How It Feels to Be Ru...

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Publicado en:Studia Phaenomenologica Vol. 16; pp. 409 - 439
Autor principal: Shilina-Conte, Tanya
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Publicado: Zeta Books 2016
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