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Kevin M. Fisher

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Altered Consciousness in Easy Rider and Altered States

February 21, 2019 Kevin M. Fisher

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...