{"product_id":"the-cinematic-body-by-steven-shaviro","title":"‘The Cinematic Body’ by Steven Shaviro","description":"\u003ch4\u003eSteven Shaviro’s \u003cem\u003eThe Cinematic Body\u003c\/em\u003e argues against the idea that cinema is best understood as a system of representation to be decoded from a safe critical distance.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDrawing on Deleuze and Guattari, Benjamin, Vertov, psychoanalysis and contemporary film theory, Shaviro treats cinema as a force that acts directly on bodies: producing sensation, affect, pleasure, pain and forms of perception before they are organised into meaning.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt looks deeply as spectatorship through montage, masochism, horror, comedy, gender; Warhol and Cronenberg become ways of testing how cinema distributes intensity and reorganises the relation between viewer and image. Against film theory’s tendency to reduce visual pleasure to ideology or illusion, Shaviro insists on the material force of the image itself. The result is an early and important contribution to affect-oriented film theory, and a useful bridge between Deleuzian philosophy and the phenomenology of watching.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eUniversity of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 1993. First edition. Paperback, Theory Out of Bounds series, volume 2. Light shelf wear and minor creasing to covers; internally clean and sound.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46287672311891,"sku":null,"price":40.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/womenintranslation-2026-09-15T160856.090.png?v=1789452552","url":"https:\/\/bowerbooks.com\/products\/the-cinematic-body-by-steven-shaviro","provider":"bower books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}