SCREENING CHARACTERS Editors: Johannes Riis (University of Copenhagen) Aaron Taylor (University of Lethbridge) Often the most immediate object of interest for audiences, characters frequently serve as the direct means by […]
Dear colleagues, We are pleased to announce that our most recent paper entited “With the Past in Front of the Character: Evidence for Spatial-Temporal Metaphors in Cinema” has been published […]
Dear SCSMI members, Please allow us to share with you our paper entitled “A study in cinematic subjectivity: Metaphors of perception in film” that just came out in Metaphor and […]
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.