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Title: Passionate Views: Film, Cognition, and Emotion by Carl R. Plantinga, Greg M. Smith ISBN: 0-8018-6011-3 Publisher: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr Pub. Date: April, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $20.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)
Rating: 5
Summary: Stimulating and unique collection.
Comment: A welcome and insightful anthology, bringing much needed attention and light to the affective dimension of film. Too often the undeniable emotional power of the cinematic experience has been ignored by scholars and critics, unless this elusive register of film was being "politicized" in Marxist or feminist critiques of the "insidious" messages of a dominant ideology.
The essays about "Clockwork Orange" and "The Elephant Man" are especially useful (though I would argue that no director has captured the "sound of silence" more affectingly than does Lynch in the disturbing montage sequences representing Merrick's consciousness).
Since Jeff Smith's essay addresses my own somewhat "pioneering" analysis of Friedhofer's score for "Best Years," I'll briefly respond. The representation of my own position and approach--influenced by Lacanian "suture" theory--is impressively accurate. But I would suggest that Smith's counterproposal of a more cognitive-based approach would not necessarily produce a more reliable account of the viewer's response to the film score--especially given the widely-accepted discreditation of music's inherently narrative, or "programmatic," features. Rather, music is one of cinema's most fluid and elusive signifiers, capable of reaching the viewer at both conscious and sub-conscious levels as well as evoking emotions through incongruous juxtapositions of the ironic and the literal. Representing this "transaction" between the film's emotive messages and the viewer's claiming them as "his own," will always be an activity located in a rhetorical as much as an analytic space.
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Title: Film Structure and the Emotion System by Greg M. Smith ISBN: 0521817587 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 13 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $55.00 |
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Title: Cognitive Science, Literature, and the Arts: A Guide for Humanists by Patrick Colm Hogan ISBN: 0415942454 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: 01 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Post-Theory: Reconstructing Film Studies (Wisconsin Studies in Film) by David Bordwell, Noel Carroll ISBN: 0299149447 Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press Pub. Date: 01 February, 1996 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Film Theory and Philosophy by Richard Allen, Murray Smith ISBN: 0198159889 Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr on Demand Pub. Date: June, 1999 List Price(USD): $49.95 |
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Title: Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet by Sherry Turkle ISBN: 0684833484 Publisher: Touchstone Books Pub. Date: 04 September, 1997 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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