Neurofilmology of the Moving Image
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Neurofilmology of the Moving Image

Gravity and Vertigo in Contemporary Cinema

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eBook - ePub

Neurofilmology of the Moving Image

Gravity and Vertigo in Contemporary Cinema

About this book

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.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Half Title page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Dedication
  6. Table of Contents
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. I Vertigo: Towards a Neurofilmology
  9. II Acrobatics: On the wires of empathy
  10. III Fall: Descent to equilibrium
  11. IV Impact: Experiencing the unrepresentable
  12. V Overturning: Upside-down dissimulations
  13. VI Drift: Ungraspable environments
  14. VII Flight: Towards an Ecofilmology
  15. Bibliography
  16. Filmography
  17. Index