From sensation to synaesthesia in film and new media / edited by Rossella Catanese, Francesca Scotto Lavina and Valentina Valente.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lavina, Francesca Scotto, editor.

Catanese, Rossella, editor.

Valente, Valentina, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Senses and sensation in motion pictures.

Genre:

Libros electrónicos.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 254 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, [2019]

Summary:

This collection of essays focuses on current theories of sensation and synaesthesia in films and audiovisual works from a variety of methodological perspectives. It offers an insightful exploration of recent film theories about the cinematic experience. Film spectatorship and its extension in new media as a similar form of audience enjoyment stimulates both our senses and mind by creating immersive environments that involve different levels of emotion and consciousness.

Contents:

First section: Perception

Chapter One. Affect in perception: cinematic fascination and enactive emotions

Chapter Two. The magic of cinema: perception, cognition and empathy in the cinematic vision

Chapter Three. Color outside the lines: animating a model of synaesthesia

Chapter Four. The sublime spittle of the opera singer

Chapter Five. The theatricality of Alain Resnais' films: "melo" and "Smoking/No smoking"

Second section: Movement

Chapter Six. Mechanical sensations: Etienne-Jules Marcy, Charles Fremont and the issue of automatism

Chapter Seven. 'The underlying gesture': towards the notion of gesture in Jean d'Udine and Sergei Eisenstein

Chapter Eight. Film as synaesthetic object: the affective sensorimotor coupling of cinematic image

Third section: Senses

Chapter Nine. Olfactory experience and the exploration of space in cinema: Alexander Sokurov's "Alexandra" and Jan Jakub Kolski's "Jasminnum"

Chapter Ten. Jonathan Glazer's Under the skin: cinematic clash of affection and surface

Chapter Eleven. The electricity of blue roses: shorting the senses and sensing film mood in Twin Peaks Walk with Me

Chapter Twelve. Dust gets in your eyes: representations of dust and debris in documentary film and video from mainland China

Fourth section: Abstractions

Chapter Thirteen. "The Murmur of exisitence": Siegfried Kracauer between aural and visual noise

Chapter Fourteen. The poly-expressive symphony: futurism and the moving image

Chapter Fifteen. From painting to film: abstract cinema and synaesthesia

Fifth section: New media and media art

Chapter Sixteen. A return to the techniques of the body: on the reenactments of Zoe Beloff

Chapter Seventeen. Inventing the sese: Polish new media art and synaesthesia in '60s-'80s

Chapter Eighteen. The sensory experience of drone piloting in Omer Fast's "Five thousand feet is the best".

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and filmography.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-5275-2784-0

OCLC:

1088554203