Conclusion: Rethinking Cinematic Subjectivity and Beyond

Abstract

In my Introduction to this volume, I emphasised the coextensive, but often unqualified, relationship between cinema and subjectivity, a relationship which has been a focus of so much attention in film theory, film philosophy and film history, without explicitly being framed in such terms. Evidently, the scope and span for a project about cinematic subjectivity has the potential to become unfeasibly large, but in this project, thinking cinematic subjectivity has been brought together with a range of phenomenological frameworks surrounding issues of temporality and embodiment affect and agency, and the material conditions of cinematic technologies and our cinematic worlds.