The Multisensory Film Experience: A Cognitive Model of Experiental Film Aesthetics

220 Pages·2016·4.77 MB·English

by  Luis Rocha Antunes

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The Multisensory Film Experience
A Cognitive Model of Experiential Film Aesthetics
Luis Rocha Antunes
intellect Bristol, UK / Chicago, USA
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First published in the UK in 2016 by
Intellect, The Mill, Parnall Road, Fishponds, Bristol, BS16 3JG, UK
First published in the USA in 2016 by
Intellect, The University of Chicago Press, 1427 E. 60th Street,
Chicago, IL 60637, USA
Copyright © 2016 Intellect Ltd
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The book is published with support from The Faculty of Humanities,
Norwegian University of Science and Technology.
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To my parents, António and Isabel, for their unconditional love and support.
To Cynthia Freeland, philosopher, lover of cats, film and the arts. Woman of courage.
To the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology, whose doctoral funding
kept this project alive.
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Contents
Foreword by Michael Grabowski xi
Acknowledgements xiii
Chapter 1: The Multisensory Film Experience, Experiential Film Aesthetics, 1
Cinema and the Senses
Chapter 2: The Vestibular in Film: Orientation and Balance in Gus Van Sant’s 47
Cinema of Walking
Chapter 3: Nociception in Film: A Cinematic Account of Ki-Duk Kim’s 93
Aesthetics of Pain
Chapter 4: Thermoception in Film: Knut Erik Jensen’s Experiential 133
Aesthetics of Cold
Chapter 5: Conclusion 175
Bibliography 179
Filmography 199
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We think we know by the look of a thing what we originally learned by feeling it.
(Yeo, 1884: 536)
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