PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Pisters, Patricia
TI  - Illusionary Perception and Cinema. Experimental Thoughts on Film Theory and Neuroscience
DP  - 2011 Dec 1
TA  - Iluminace
PG  - 43--58
VI  - 23
IP  - 4
IS  - 0862397X
AB  - In her study, the author deals with the effect of film on the viewer, especially how the meanings of a cinematic work enter one's consciousness. She uses definition and attention to revise M´nsterberg's analysis of film detail as an embodiment of attention. As concrete examples, she analyses the films The Illusionist and The Prestige. In line with M´nsterberg, the author considers film - both its formal devices and the behaviour of individual characters - as a mirror of the viewer's own mental processes. Unlike M´nstenberg, however, she describes these operations with the tools of contemporary science, not psychology.