Enacting the worlds of cinema /
Enacting the World of Cinema offers a substantial reconfiguration of the textual roots of modern film narratology. By giving sustained attention to cinema's material-affective modes of communicating its stories and embedding its audience in atmospheric, kinetic and multisensorial worlds, this b...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
[2022].
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| Summary: | Enacting the World of Cinema offers a substantial reconfiguration of the textual roots of modern film narratology. By giving sustained attention to cinema's material-affective modes of communicating its stories and embedding its audience in atmospheric, kinetic and multisensorial worlds, this book maintains that film narratives are less representations than they are enactments; brought forth through the interactions of the felt body and the film material. The book defends this enactive and media-anthropological thesis by reworking a series of established film narratological key concepts including the diegesis, mood/atmosphere and the distinction between diegetic and non-diegetic sound. In the process, this book draws on a wide range of contemporary theoretical resources such as affective neuroscience, media-philosophy, philosophy of mind, atmosphere research, multisensory perception theory, as well as a broad selection of films including Berlin, Symphony of a Great City (Ruttman, 1927), The Cranes are Flying (Kalatozov, 1957) and Happy as Lazzaro (Rohrwacher, 2018). |
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| Physical Description: | viii, 203 pages ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0197555101 9780197555101 |