1st Edition
Neurofilmology of the Moving Image Gravity and Vertigo in Contemporary Cinema
By Adriano D'Aloia
Copyright 2021
254 Pages
by
Routledge
254 Pages
by
Routledge
254 Pages
by
Routledge
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A walk suspended in mid-air, a fall at breakneck speed towards a fatal impact with the ground, an upside-down flip into space, the drift of an astronaut in the void… Analysing a wide range of films, this book brings to light a series of recurrent aesthetic motifs through which contemporary cinema destabilizes and then restores the spectator’s sense of equilibrium. The 'tensive motifs' of... Read more
Acknowledgements, I Vertigo, Towards a Neurofilmology, II Acrobatics, On the wires of empathy, III Fall, Descent to equilibrium, IV Impact, Experiencing the unrepresentable, V Overturning, Upside-down dissimulations, VI Drift, Ungraspable environments, VII Flight, Towards an Ecofilmology, Bibliography, Filmography, Index
Biography
Adriano D’Aloia is an Associate Professor of Film and Media studies at the University of Bergamo, Italy.
