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The Metamorphoses of Consciousness

Author(s): Nadezhda Todorova
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Psychology, Sociology, Individual Psychology, Cognitive Psychology, Psychology of Self, Psychoanalysis, Methodology and research technology, Evaluation research, Studies in violence and power
Published by: Великотърновски университет „Св. св. Кирил и Методий”
Keywords: aggression; identification; viewer; cinema; psychology; adolescence

Summary/Abstract: This study addresses the issues of screen synthesis through which a certain type of message is suggested; in this case: the impact of films featuring violence, cruelty, and aggression, as well as the polysemantic nature of the screen message and the transformation in the receptions of adolescents between 13 and 18 years old. The focus is on the motives for choosing topics in the film industry that are related to the interpretations of aggression and crime, mainly among young people. The emotional involvement of the viewer, especially during the period of physical and mental maturation, is a precarious process with unpredictable consequences and side effects. Playing with the audience, with their conscious perceptions and unconscious experiences, especially through attempts at manipulation, which are not missing, can prove to be a very dangerous (meta)territory.

  • Issue Year: 30/2022
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 174-190
  • Page Count: 17
  • Language: Bulgarian