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1 Online-Ressource
ISBN:
9780203795781
Content:
Why is the moving image so important in our lives? What is the link between the psychology of Jung, Freud and films? How do film and psychology address the problems of modernity? Visible Mind is a book about why film is so important to contemporary life, how film affects us psychologically as individuals, and how it affects us culturally as collective social beings. Since its inception, film has been both responsive to historical cultural conditions and reflective of changes in psychological and emotional needs. Arising at the same moment over a centu
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Cover; Visible Mind; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of illustrations; Foreword; Preface and acknowledgements; Part I Watching movies; 1 Introduction: modernity, fragmentation and film; Cinema as temenos; Cinema and modern times; Writing about film; talking with filmmakers; Please watch these films; 2 The face and film: the surface and what's beneath; The close-up; The therapist's perspective; Daniel Stern and the mother's face; The idea of the face as the surface and the hidden; The value of the face as surface
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The actor: textures and layers (interview with Margaret Klenck)Becoming the character: 'The more you can be surprised by your imagination, the truer the art is'; 'I would have been a better actor had I been in analysis'; The material world and acting: 'You endow all the props and they feed you and endow your unconscious'; Blinded by the light: 'When you are in the light, you are in your own world'; Aware and not aware: 'I knew I was going to do it, but "she", my character, had no idea'
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'Acting - it's not like life. It's got all the interesting stuff about life without any of the boring stuff about life…'3 Film and the shadow; Film and its gaps - emptiness as shadow to substance; The Red Book - Jung's encounter with the shadow of the civilised; 'Bewitched by the banal': pulp fiction, cinema and Jung's epiphany; Shadow and emotions - why do we cry at the movies more than at life?; Shadow and society - gangsters, vampires and violence; The shadow of death and the new vampire; 4 Cinema, Jung and the American psyche: how Europe got to know the mind of America through the movies
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The home of filmSeeing America through the cinema; The impossibility of a national psychology; Plurality in the psyche, plurality in the culture; Hollywood and the black actor; The heroic ideal, the American male and the Western; How did America face itself?; The money shot; The cinematographer: a dance they don't know I'm a partner in (interview with Tom Hurwitz); The logic and the intuition of shooting: 'Our job is trying to set a trap for chance'; The logic and intuition of cameras and lighting: 'Beyond all the technical decisions you have made, you've just got to see it as image'
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Collaborating in the intuitive space: 'We do a kind of intuitive dance all the time''It's this odd combination of being relaxed and being absolutely tense at the same time'; Part II Making movies; 5 What makes movies work: unconscious process and the filmmaker's craft; Structure and enabling the unconscious; What do we mean by 'unconscious factors and processes'?; Personal psychology, collective creativity; The mechanics of filming and the knowing unconscious: Michael Chapman, cinematographer; 'Writing with light': Vittorio Storaro and amplifying the image; Last reel: a place of safety
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The writer/director: show me the opposite (interview with Dudi Appleton)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780415692519
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780415692526
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780415692519
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books
DOI:
10.4324/9780203795781
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