Enacting the Worlds of Cinema

Enacting the Worlds of Cinema
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 217
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ISBN-10 : 9780197555101
ISBN-13 : 0197555101
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Download or read book Enacting the Worlds of Cinema written by Steffen Hven and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-05-06 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enacting the Worlds of Cinema offers a substantial reconfiguration of the textual roots of modern film narratology. By giving sustained attention to cinema's material-affective modes of communicating its stories and embedding its audience in atmospheric, kinetic, and multisensorial worlds, this book maintains that film narratives are less representations than they are enactments; brought forth through the interactions of the felt body and the film material. The book defends this enactive and media-anthropological thesis by reworking a series of established film narratological key concepts including the diegesis, mood/atmosphere, and the distinction between diegetic and non-diegetic sound. In the process, this book draws on a wide range of contemporary theoretical resources such as affective neuroscience, media-philosophy, philosophy of mind, atmosphere research, multisensory perception theory as well as a broad selection of films including Berlin: Symphony of a Great City (Ruttmann, 1927), The Cranes are Flying (Kalatozov, 1957) and Happy as Lazzaro (Rohrwacher, 2018).


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