CfE 44 - World Cinemas of Resistance: Cinematic worlds as decolonial practices
Call for Essays for the thematic section of Cinéma & Cie no. 44, edited by Daniele Rugo and Marco Benoît Carbone.
Edited by Adriano D’Aloia and Ian Verstegen
Recent advancements in the encounter between media studies and the cognitive sciences raises the possibility of re-launching some of the assumptions of Gestalt psychology as productive insights for film theory, analysis, and criticism. ‘Gestalt Filmology’ would be a body of knowledge taking hints from Rudolf Arnheim’s pioneering film theory but anchored in core Gestalt ideas about the multimodal functioning of the senses, motion and ego-perception and resulting filmic expressiveness and symbolism. Elaborated in this way, a Gestalt Filmology might be able to offer suggestions and correctives to an ‘embodied cognition’ and ‘neurofilmological’ approach in visual media studies. This special issue of Cinéma & Cie connects together elements of Arnheim’s thought from different periods of his career. It bolsters Arnheimian ideas with research strains from general gestalt-theoretical psychology, and it brings elements of those same Gestalt-theoretical traditions to parts of film theory that Arnheim never touched.
Call for Essays for the thematic section of Cinéma & Cie no. 44, edited by Daniele Rugo and Marco Benoît Carbone.
Call for Essays for the thematic section of Cinéma & Cie no. 42, edited by Kathrin Fahlenbrach, Giuseppe Previtali, and Giacomo Tagliani.
Call for Essays for the thematic section of Cinéma & Cie no. 41, edited by Daniel Biltereyst, Elena Gipponi and Andrea Miconi
Cinéma & Cie. Film and Media Studies Journal
ISSN 2036-461X
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