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Cinéma et psychologie cognitive : le « tournant corporel » des études audiovisuelles
Cinema and cognitive psychology: the "corporeal turn" in audiovisual studies

Author(s): Laurent Jullier
Subject(s): Cognitive Psychology, Film / Cinema / Cinematography
Published by: Universitatea Babeş-Bolyai, Facultatea de Teatru si Televiziune
Keywords: history of cinema; aesthetics; emotion; cognition; film analysis

Summary/Abstract: Books and articles that propose to apply a "cognitivist" approach to cinema seem to constitute a somewhat ghettoized autonomous territory in academic research. Unlike his opponent psychoanalysis, psychology (cognitive or not, for that matter) is never used by other disciplines as a complementary element to their own approach. Everything happens as if it were a closed discipline, practiced only in the laboratory... Here we take the opposite of this opinion, and the effort is to prove that many cognitivist tools serve, as well as history, aesthetics, cultural studies, sociology, etc., to engage in the most basic and fundamental exercise of Film Studies: film analysis. Various examples will be taken in various genres in the world academic field.

  • Issue Year: 20/2018
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 20-39
  • Page Count: 19
  • Language: French