Time, memory, consciousness and the cinema experience : : revisiting ideas on matter and spirit / / Martha Blassnigg.

In this book cinema spectators are presented as ‘observing participants’, that is, agents who take part in their own perceptual processes. It takes experience into the centre of its investigation to propose the spectators’ active participation. It applies this to understanding cinema, from its outse...

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Superior document:Consciousness, literature & the arts ; 21
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Place / Publishing House:Amsterdam ;, New York, N.Y. : : Rodopi,, 2009.
Year of Publication:2009
Language:English
Series:Consciousness, Literature and the Arts 21.
Physical Description:1 online resource (254 pages).
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Introduction
  • Wings of Time: an Associative Prelude
  • Bergson’s Philosophy as Interdisciplinary Nexus with Catalytic Impact: Time, Memory, Consciousness and the Relation between ‘Spirit’ (l’Esprit) and ‘Matter’ (Matière)
  • The Analysis and Synthesis of Movement in Relation to Time: Revisiting Étienne-Jules Marey’s Work in a Virtual Dialogue with the Philosophy of Henri Bergson
  • The Subordination of Time to Movement: From the Eye-Brain Model to the Mind-Consciousness Correlate
  • The ‘Image in Motion’ Beyond the ‘Cinematographical Tendency’ of the Intellect: Dynamism, Intuition and Consciousness in Warburg, Marey and Bergson
  • Time, Memory, Consciousness: Resituating the ‘Spiritual’ Dimension in the Perceptual Processes of the Spectators
  • Bibliography
  • Index.