ABSTRACT
The role of the subject as the central site of the sense-making process has been given a lot of attention in recent critical theory in general and screen theory in particular. It is not an easy concept to grasp, first because the word itself has such a long history of varied and abstract usages and second because the concept is in conflict with that commonsensical notion that is the basic assumption of so much capitalist and empiricist thought, the notion of the individual.
