Lessons in Perception

The Avant-Garde Filmmaker as Practical Psychologist
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-78533-641-6
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, 226 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 485 g

Narrative comprehension, memory, motion, depth perception, synesthesia, hallucination, and dreaming have long been objects of fascination for cognitive psychologists. They have also been among the most potent sources of creative inspiration for experimental filmmakers. Lessons in Perception melds film theory and cognitive science in a stimulating investigation of the work of iconic experimental artists such as Stan Brakhage, Robert Breer, Maya Deren, and Jordan Belson. In illustrating how avant-garde filmmakers draw from their own mental and perceptual capacities, author Paul Taberham offers a compelling account of how their works expand the spectator’s range of aesthetic sensitivities and open creative vistas uncharted by commercial cinema.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Taberham, Paul

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Kognitionspsychologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmtheorie, Filmanalyse

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Introduction

PART I: COGNITION

Chapter 1.The Specter of Narrative

Chapter 2. Ghost Films of the Avant-Garde

PART II: VISUAL PERCEPTION

Chapter 3. Bottom Up Processing, Entoptic Vision and the Innocent Eye in the Films of Stan Brakhage

Chapter 4. Robert Breer and the Dialectic of Eye and Camera

PART III: AUDIO-VISUAL PERCEPTION

Chapter 5. Synaesthetic Film Reconsidered

Chapter 6. Three Dimensions of Visual Music

Conclusion

Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Taberham, Paul
Paul Taberham is Senior Lecturer in Animation Studies at the Arts University Bournemouth. He is the coeditor of Cognitive Media Theory (2014) and The New Experimental Animation: From Analogue to Digital (2018). Paul has appeared on radio, spoken internationally at conferences, and published articles for several edited collections and journals including Projections: The Journal for Movies and Mind and Animation Journal. He is a fellow of The Society for Cognitive Studies of the Moving Image.