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These Eyes…
What do these eyes tell us? Check out several new posts about eyes: “The Social Network: The Faces Behind Facebook,” “The Eye’s Mind,” and “Watching You Watch ‘There Will be Blood’” (by Tim Smith). more . . .
Tagged Emotion, Eye Tracking, Eyes
The Fun of Fear: Horror, Suspense, and Halloween
Humans are the only creatures that actively seek out fearful experiences. We go to scary movies. We take roller coaster rides. We skydive. We even pay money to do these things. That seems irrational. Paradoxical. Why do we do it? Read on! more . . .
Gaut on Digital Cinema and the Evidence of Images
There has been a lot of questionable talk about the rise of digital media and the future of cinema, predicting the death of indexicality, the loss of the referent, and the “post-photographic era,” for example. Well, digital cinema has arrived, and as far as I can tell, spectators are still taking digital images as photographic evidence, as is true in the case of the Academy Award-winning documentary film The Cove (2009). more . . .
Tagged Digital Images, Documentary, Evidence