RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
A1 Pisters, Patricia
T1 Illusionary Perception and Cinema. Experimental Thoughts on Film Theory and Neuroscience
JF Iluminace
YR 2011
VO 23
IS 4
SP 43
OP 58
UL https://iluminace.cz/en/artkey/ilu-201104-0003.php
AB In her study, the author deals with the effect of film on the viewer, especially how the meanings of a cinematic work enter one's consciousness. She uses definition and attention to revise M´nsterberg's analysis of film detail as an embodiment of attention. As concrete examples, she analyses the films The Illusionist and The Prestige. In line with M´nsterberg, the author considers film - both its formal devices and the behaviour of individual characters - as a mirror of the viewer's own mental processes. Unlike M´nstenberg, however, she describes these operations with the tools of contemporary science, not psychology.