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Author D'Aloia, Adriano, 1980- author.

Title Neurofilmology of the moving image : gravity and vertigo in contemporary cinema / Adriano D loia
Published Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2021]

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Contents Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- I Vertigo -- II Acrobatics -- III Fall -- IV Impact -- V Overturning -- VI Drift -- VII Flight -- Bibliography -- Filmography -- Index
Summary 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 imaginary 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
Analysis Embodiment, Film experience, Contemporary cinema, Neurofilmology, Cinematic empathy
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 21, 2022)
Subject Motion pictures -- Psychological aspects
Neurosciences and motion pictures.
Films, cinema.
Physiological and neuro-psychology, biopsychology.
PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- General.
Motion pictures -- Psychological aspects
Neurosciences and motion pictures
Films, cinema.
Cognition and cognitive psychology.
Neurosciences.
Genre/Form e-books.
Livres numériques.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9789048553709
9048553709