“How can cinema have so powerful a reality effect when it is so manifestly unreal?” Vittorio Gallese and I have started from this very simple assumption by Steven Shaviro to […]
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Several cognitive psychologists cooked up a simple experiment to demonstrate the power of our preference for underdogs. Here are animations similar to those they used, so you can check out their results for yourself.
In a recent online essay, I survey some major ways in which people thinking about cinema have floated psychological explanations for filmmakers' creative choices. I would welcome feedback and discussion on the SCSMI Forum.
I've written a little envoi to the 2012 conference, on my blog.
This is a follow-up to the previous post, about Noël Carroll’s talk at the SCSMI conference—a revision of the long comment I wrote. I’m still sorting out my ideas, so […]
Or do they? A question regarding (and invitation to comment on) Noël Carroll's keynote speech at this year's SCSMI conference.