The point-of-view shot is usually perceived as a -natural- device, yet its naturalness is illusory. This book provides an answer to the question: -Where does the point-of-view shot come from?- It investigates the emergence of this filmic form as the product of a culture and its history, unravelling the difference between a point-of-view shot and a character s subjective viewpoint. In so doing, it shows that what would become the point of-view shot developed from the interposition, between the eye and the world, of a prosthesis capable of modifying the conditions needed to access the visible,...