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01Aug

New book: Ib Bondebjerg: Engaging With Reality. Documentary and Globalization

by Ib Bondebjerg in Forum | 0 Comment
EWR1-flyer The documentary film and television programmes analyzed in this book are cosmopolitan narratives in the sense that they deal with global challenges and try to develop narratives based on […]
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Twice-Told Tales: Mildred Pierce
02Jul

Twice-Told Tales: Mildred Pierce

by David Bordwell in Forum | 0 Comment
Editing together extracts from the murder scene near the beginning of Mildred Pierce and its replay near the end demonstrates how cleverly the movie toys with viewers' comprehension and recollection of the scene.
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02Jul

SCSMI at SCMS

by Carl Plantinga in Forum | 0 Comment
Dear SCSMI members, As some of you may know, several years ago we started a Scholarly Interest Group (SIG) for Cognitive/Analytic film studies at the Society of Cinema and Media […]
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16May

Conference “Games, Cognition, and Emotion” 2013

by Felix Schröter in Forum | 0 Comment
Dear SCSMI members, for those of you who are interested in video games: Just a few weeks after this year’s SCSMI conference in Berlin there will be a conference on […]
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15May

Inference processes in comprehension of educational films

by Stephan Schwan in Forum | 0 Comment
In a recent paper, we investigated inference processes during watching educational movies. In three experiments we found that viewers make online bridging inferences, that these inferences are integrated into the […]
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14May

Interview with Vittorio Gallese

by Carl Plantinga in Forum | 0 Comment
Interview with Vittorio Gallese Some of you may be interested in this interview with V. Gallese in the Huffington Post, by SCSMI member Karin Badt. Gallese is working on a […]
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