Neurofilmology of the Moving Image - Gravity and Vertigo in Contemporary Cinema

A walk suspended in mid-air, a fall at breakneck speed towards a fatal impact with the ground, an upside-down flip into space, the drift of an astronaut in the void... Analysing a wide range of films, this book brings to light a series of recurrent aesthetic motifs through which contemporary cinema destabilizes and then restores the spectator's sense of equilibrium.

List of contents

Acknowledgements, I Vertigo, Towards a Neurofilmology, II Acrobatics, On the wires of empathy, III Fall, Descent to equilibrium, IV Impact, Experiencing the unrepresentable, V Overturning, Upside-down dissimulations, VI Drift, Ungraspable environments, VII Flight, Towards an Ecofilmology, Bibliography, Filmography, Index

About the author

Adriano D'Aloia is an Associate Professor of Film and Media studies at the University of Bergamo, Italy.

Product details

• Authors: Adriano D'Aloia, DR. (ENG) Adriano D'Aloia, Adriano D''aloia, Dr. (Eng) Adriano D''aloia
• Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.10.2021
• EAN: 9789463725255
• ISBN: 978-94-63-72525-5
• No. of pages: 254
• Series: Amsterdam University Press
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet