Neurofilmology of the Moving Image

Gravity and Vertigo in Contemporary Cinema
Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-94-6372-525-5
Verlag: Amsterdam University Press

Buch, Englisch, 254 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 363 g

Reihe: Amsterdam University Press

A walk suspended in mid-air, a fall at breakneck speed towards a fatal impact with the ground, an upside-down flip into space, the drift of an astronaut in the void… Analysing a wide range of films, this book brings to light a series of recurrent aesthetic motifs through which contemporary cinema destabilizes and then restores the spectator’s sense of equilibrium. The 'tensive motifs' of acrobatics, fall, impact, overturning, and drift reflect our fears and dreams and offer embodied forms of transcendence of the limits of our human condition along with an awareness of their insurmountable nature. Adopting the approach of 'Neurofilmology'—an interdisciplinary method that puts filmology, perceptual psychology, philosophy of mind, and cognitive neuroscience into dialogue—this book implements the paradigm of embodied cognition in a new ecological epistemology of the moving-image experience.

Autoren/Hrsg.

D'Aloia, Adriano

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Biologische Psychologie, Neuropsychologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

I Vertigo

Towards a Neurofilmology

II Acrobatics

On the wires of empathy

III Fall

Descent to equilibrium

IV Impact

Experiencing the unrepresentable

V Overturning

Upside-down dissimulations

VI Drift

Ungraspable environments

VII Flight

Towards an Ecofilmology

Bibliography

Filmography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

D'Aloia, Adriano
Adriano D’Aloia is an Associate Professor of Film and Media studies at the University of Bergamo, Italy.