Francesco Sticchi

Melancholy Emotion in Contemporary Cinema (eBook, ePUB)

A Spinozian Analysis of Film Experience

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book analyzes film experience through the lens of Baruch Spinoza's embodied philosophy. Spinoza's philosophy allows us to appreciate and master sad passions and, at the same time, to show the conceptual power of film experience.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 206
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Januar 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429847455
• Artikelnr.: 55170522

Autorenporträt

Francesco Sticchi obtained a Ph.D in Film Studies at Oxford Brookes University under the supervision of Dr Warren Buckland. He works as Associate Lecturer in the same institution, and his research concerns the study of sad passions in audiovisual experience, and the relation between Spinoza's thought and embodied cognitive theories. He is also interested in an experiential and interactive use of Mikhail Bakhtin's Chronotope, and he is currently working on an affective-ethical approach to analyse how contemporary media culture addresses the concept of precarity.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Part 1 Philosophical Models and Interpretative Instruments
1 From Spinoza to the Embodied Mind A Radical Notion of Immanence The
Embodied Mind Body Concepts and Idealised Cognitive Models Metonymical and
Metaphorical Blending Emotions and the Imitation of the Affects Sad
Passions and Knowledge as the Most Powerful of the Affects Summary and
Conclusions Part 2 A Spinozian-Experiential Theory of Film 2 A Spinozian
Re-Evaluation of Cognitive Film Theory Top-Down Processes and Cognitive
Semiotics The Ecological Psychology of Film Engaging Film Characters
Scenarios, Moods, and the Imaginative Dynamics of Involvement Embodied
Simulation and Films Experiential Perspectives on Film Analysis Conclusions
3 A Spinozian Philosophy of Film Experience The Relation between Philosophy
and Cinema Film Are Percepts The Issue of Trauma and Sad Passions in Film
Experience Summary and Conclusions: The Experiential Viewer and Her/His
Possibilities Part 3 Case Studies: Four Melancholic Films 4 A Contemporary
Job: A Serious Man 5 The World Shatters: Melancholia 6 Mastering Genocide:
The Act of Killing 7 Time Is a Flat Circle: Only Lovers Left Alive
Conclusions Bibliography Index