Vivian Sobchack

4.8k total citations
45 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

Vivian Sobchack is a scholar working on Literature and Literary Theory, Economics and Econometrics and Visual Arts and Performing Arts. According to data from OpenAlex, Vivian Sobchack has authored 45 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 12 papers in Literature and Literary Theory, 12 papers in Economics and Econometrics and 7 papers in Visual Arts and Performing Arts. Recurrent topics in Vivian Sobchack's work include Cinema and Media Studies (12 papers), Literature, Film, and Journalism Analysis (6 papers) and Digital Games and Media (4 papers). Vivian Sobchack is often cited by papers focused on Cinema and Media Studies (12 papers), Literature, Film, and Journalism Analysis (6 papers) and Digital Games and Media (4 papers). Vivian Sobchack collaborates with scholars based in United States. Vivian Sobchack's co-authors include Neal Oxenhandler, Kathleen McHugh, Thomas Elsaesser and Kristin M. Langellier and has published in prestigious journals such as Cell Death and Differentiation, Futures and Signs.

In The Last Decade

Vivian Sobchack

38 papers receiving 917 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Vivian Sobchack United States 16 530 347 315 281 177 45 1.3k
Laura U. Marks Canada 8 305 0.6× 243 0.7× 138 0.4× 217 0.8× 104 0.6× 36 845
Philip Auslander United States 17 250 0.5× 496 1.4× 329 1.0× 813 2.9× 199 1.1× 68 2.0k
Edward Branigan United States 10 249 0.5× 240 0.7× 316 1.0× 132 0.5× 42 0.2× 25 829
Carl Plantinga United States 11 212 0.4× 146 0.4× 262 0.8× 131 0.5× 37 0.2× 35 697
Erika Fischer‐Lichte Germany 14 72 0.1× 262 0.8× 173 0.5× 440 1.6× 98 0.6× 89 997
Susan McClary United States 15 53 0.1× 249 0.7× 190 0.6× 106 0.4× 103 0.6× 54 1.4k
Mark B. N. Hansen United States 12 64 0.1× 265 0.8× 102 0.3× 108 0.4× 95 0.5× 32 823
Timothy R. Austin United States 5 54 0.1× 313 0.9× 559 1.8× 78 0.3× 39 0.2× 14 1.2k
Richard Southern United Kingdom 17 107 0.2× 304 0.9× 129 0.4× 40 0.1× 28 0.2× 72 1.3k
Barbara Maria Stafford United States 10 47 0.1× 184 0.5× 175 0.6× 229 0.8× 44 0.2× 50 958

Countries citing papers authored by Vivian Sobchack

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Fields of papers citing papers by Vivian Sobchack

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Vivian Sobchack

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Sobchack, Vivian. (2020). The Address of the Eye. Princeton University Press eBooks. 1 indexed citations
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Sobchack, Vivian. (2018). Love Machines: Spielberg/Kubrick, Artificial Intelligence and Other Oxymorons of Science Fiction Cinema. Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II. 557–573. 1 indexed citations
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Sobchack, Vivian. (2014). Interrotroning history: errol morris and the documentary of the future. 229–244. 2 indexed citations
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Sobchack, Vivian. (2014). Introduction: history happens. 11–24. 1 indexed citations
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Sobchack, Vivian. (2010). Living a ‘Phantom Limb’: On the Phenomenology of Bodily Integrity. Body & Society. 16(3). 51–67. 58 indexed citations
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Sobchack, Vivian. (2009). Animation and automation, or, the incredible effortfulness of being. Screen. 50(4). 375–391. 29 indexed citations
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Sobchack, Vivian. (2008). Love machines: boy toys, toy boys and the oxymorons of A.I.: Artificial Intelligence. Science Fiction Film & Television. 1(1). 1–13.
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Sobchack, Vivian. (2007). journal of visual culture. Journal of Visual Culture. 6(2). 219–246. 9 indexed citations
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Sobchack, Vivian. (2006). The Dolby Era: Film Sound in Contemporary Hollywood. Film Quarterly. 60(2). 80–80.
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Sobchack, Vivian. (2005). When the Ear Dreams: Dolby Digital and the Imagination of Sound. Film Quarterly. 58(4). 2–15. 17 indexed citations
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McHugh, Kathleen & Vivian Sobchack. (2004). Beyond the Gaze: Recent Approaches to Film Feminisms. 30(1). 2 indexed citations
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Sobchack, Vivian. (1999). Meta-Morphing: Visual Transformation and the Culture of Quick-Change. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 40 indexed citations
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Elsaesser, Thomas & Vivian Sobchack. (1996). Subject Positions, Speaking Positions: From Holocaust and Heimat to Shoah and Schindler's List. UvA-DARE (University of Amsterdam). 235–287.
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Sobchack, Vivian. (1993). New Age Mutant Ninja Hackers: Reading Mondo 2000. South Atlantic Quarterly. 92(4). 569–584. 4 indexed citations
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Sobchack, Vivian. (1990). "Surge and Splendor": A Phenomenology of the Hollywood Historical Epic. Representations. 29. 24–49. 19 indexed citations
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Sobchack, Vivian. (1987). Screening Space: The American Science Fiction Film. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 142 indexed citations
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Sobchack, Vivian. (1982). Toward inhabited space: The semiotic structure of camera movement in the cinema. Semiotica. 41(1-4). 20 indexed citations
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Sobchack, Vivian. (1977). No Lies: Direct Cinema as Rape.. Cell Death and Differentiation. 12(11). 1390–7. 4 indexed citations
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Sobchack, Vivian. (1974). Tradition and Cinematic Allusion.. Literature film quarterly. 2(1). 59–65. 1 indexed citations

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