This essay explores Vivian Sobchack’s theory of the ‘cinesthetic subject’ through the horror film ‘A Quiet Place’. Sobchack herself proposes that cinema stimulates our physical senses, like taste and touch, through visual cues. I look at how horror films (and by extension games) do this using sound design in this final submission for a cinematic theory module I took at university.
While it is a complex university-level piece, I’ve included it as I find it interesting, and feel it helps to show the breadth of my writing skill.
You can read it here.