Film and the imagined image / Sarah Cooper.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cooper, Sarah, 1971- author.

Series:

Edinburgh scholarship online.

Edinburgh scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures.

Imagination.

Imagination in motion pictures.

Film criticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 199 pages) : illustrations (black and white).

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2019.

Summary:

From documentary to art-house cinema - and from an abundance of onscreen images to their complete absence - films that experiment variously with narration, voice-over and soundscapes do not only engage viewers' thoughts and senses. They also make an appeal to visualise more than is perceptible on screen. This book explores the extraordinary ways in which film can stimulate and direct the image-making capacity of the imagination. Bringing together an international range of films with debates in philosophy, film theory, literary scholarship and cognitive psychology, author Sarah Cooper charts the key processes that serve the imagining of images in the light of the mind. Through its navigation of a labile and vivid mental terrain, this innovative work makes a profound contribution to the study of spectatorship.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Figures

Acknowledgements

PART I. DUAL VISION

CHAPTER 1. Seeing Pictures

CHAPTER 2. Feeling Pictures

PART II. MAKING MENTAL MOTION PICTURES

CHAPTER 3. Layering

CHAPTER 4. Volumising

CHAPTER 5. Supplementing

CHAPTER 6. Reshaping

CHAPTER 7. Erasing

Conclusion: Broadening Out

Postscript

Notes

Filmography

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Previously issued in print: Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2019.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781474452816

1-4744-7667-8

9781474452809

OCLC:

1306541937