Iluminace 2011, 23(4):43-58
Illusionary Perception and Cinema. Experimental Thoughts on Film Theory and Neuroscience
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.
Keywords: psychological influence of film, psychology and film, narration in film, subjective point of view, illusion in film, perception, film aesthetics, film theory, film science and research, science and film
Published: December 1, 2011 Show citation
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