Original scientific paper
A Film Scene in the Spectator's View
Hrvoje Turković
; Academy of Fine Arts, University of Zagreb
Abstract
Film is viewed, and it is not an abstract fact but bodily entrenched and life situated fact: a concrete individual spectator is watching a particular film from his bodily position in a particular life environment (in cinema, at home or somewhere else). Though the situation is obvious and understood by implication, it is mostly left out from the mainstream film theory though it should be the very starting point, the initial problem for film theory, as well as the philosophy of film. Namely, the spectator in one life environment (lived scene) is observing an entirely different (film) environment (film scene) which is perceptually and experientially recognized as akin to life scene, albeit not an actual one but derived from the light patterns on the flat surface of the screen. The basic questions in terms of this paper are thus: How is this double (“twofolded”) perceptual situation possible? What epistemological status a viewing of a film scene has in relation to the epistemological status of spectatorial viewing situation? How do the bodily entrenched (embodied) spectatorial life experiences relate to the crucial aspects of (disembodied) film scene experiences? What transactions are there among them?
Keywords
movie spectator; real and virtual scene; real and virtual viewpoint; twofoldedness; transactional basis of film representation
Hrčak ID:
304966
URI
Publication date:
29.6.2023.
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