Psychomotor Aesthetics - Movement and Affect in Modern Literature and Film

In Psychomotor Aesthetics, author Ana Hedberg Olenina explores the effects of newly-emerging physiological psychology on Russian and American art and cultural production at the turn of the 20th century.

List of contents

• Acknowledgements


• Introduction


• Chapter 1. Sound-Gesture: Embodiment in Russian Futurist Poetry


• Chapter 2. Motor Impulses of Verse: Russian Formalists on Poetry Recitation


• Chapter 3. Scores of Movement: Lev Kuleshov Approach to Film Acting


• Chapter 4. Kinesthetic Empathy: Sergei Eisenstein's Theory of Spectatorship


• Chapter 5. The Pulse of Film: Psychophysiological Studies of Film Audience


• Epilogue


• Bibliography

About the author

Ana Hedberg Olenina is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature and Media Studies at Arizona State University.

Summary

In Psychomotor Aesthetics, author Ana Hedberg Olenina explores the effects of newly-emerging physiological psychology on Russian and American art and cultural production at the turn of the 20th century.

Additional text

Psychomotor Aesthetics offers a fantastic addition to the growing collection of scholarly work on modernism in its relation to contemporaneous sciences of the body. Impressive in its geographical reach, the book makes a compelling case for placing corporeal movement (and specifically the bi-directional relation between bodily motion and mental states) at the center of intersecting and competing modernist aesthetic projects, from futurist poetry to Eisensteinian filmmaking.

Product details

• Authors: Ana Hedberg Olenina, Ana (Assistant Professor of Compa Hedberg Olenina, Ana (Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature and Media Studies Hedberg Olenina
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.07.2020
• EAN: 9780190051266
• ISBN: 978-0-19-005126-6
• No. of pages: 408
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; ART / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945), PSYCHOLOGY / Physiological Psychology, Films, cinema, Physiological & neuro-psychology, biopsychology, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, History of Art, History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -, Physiological and neuro-psychology, biopsychology, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / General