Altered Consciousness in Easy Rider and Altered States A Historical and Phenomenological Analysis

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Altered Consciousness in Easy Rider and Altered States A Historical and Phenomenological Analysis

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University of Otago

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Otago University Research Archive

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The significance of altered consciousness in cinema hinges on the medium’s unprecedented ability to turn the visual consciousness of an Other inside-out onscreen, making it visible and inhabitable to the spectator. Cinema thus transcends the limits of intersubjectivity through a ‘double occupancy of vision’, which it may predicate to the consciousness of any fictional character. Cinematic simulations of altered consciousness take this a step further by lending the mediation of experience that...

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Scholarly text / Book item

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Book Section

Date created

2019

Creator

Fisher, Kevin

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https://hdl.handle.net/10523/39419

Related subjects

Psychological Science / Double Occupancy / George King / Captain America / Diegetic Source / Psilocybe Mushrooms / Black Box / Film’s Body / Super Men / Lysergic Acid Diethylamide / Young Men / Star Gate / Cemetery Wall / Altered States / LSD Experience / Isolation Tank / Easy Rider / Cinematic Simulations

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