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Speaking Pictures: Neuropsychoanalysis and Authorship in Film and Literature
Alistair Fox
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Description for Speaking Pictures: Neuropsychoanalysis and Authorship in Film and Literature
Hardback. Num Pages: 310 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: APFA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 300 x 160 x 33. Weight in Grams: 632.
Alistair Fox presents a theory of literary and cinematic representation through the lens of neurological and cognitive science in order to understand the origins of storytelling and our desire for fictional worlds. Fox contends that fiction is deeply shaped by emotions and the human capacity for metaphorical thought. Literary and moving images bridge emotional response with the cognitive side of the brain. In a radical move to link the neurosciences with psychoanalysis, Fox foregrounds the interpretive experience as a way to reach personal emotional equilibrium by working through autobiographical issues within a fictive form.
Alistair Fox presents a theory of literary and cinematic representation through the lens of neurological and cognitive science in order to understand the origins of storytelling and our desire for fictional worlds. Fox contends that fiction is deeply shaped by emotions and the human capacity for metaphorical thought. Literary and moving images bridge emotional response with the cognitive side of the brain. In a radical move to link the neurosciences with psychoanalysis, Fox foregrounds the interpretive experience as a way to reach personal emotional equilibrium by working through autobiographical issues within a fictive form.
Product Details
Publisher
Indiana University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
310
Place of Publication
Bloomington, IN, United States
ISBN
9780253020871
SKU
V9780253020871
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99-50
About Alistair Fox
Alistair Fox is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Otago, New Zealand. He is author of Jane Campion: Authorship and Personal Cinema (IUP, 2011), translator of Anne Gillain's Francois Truffaut: The Lost Secret (IUP, 2013), and editor (with Raphaelle Moine, Hilary Radner, and Michel Marie) of A Companion to Contemporary French Cinema.
Reviews for Speaking Pictures: Neuropsychoanalysis and Authorship in Film and Literature
Very rich argumentation that progressively constructs its object, shifting with much skill from the conceptual elaboration of its global perspective to the various concrete examples of works approached so to give it flesh and blood. -Raymond Bellour, film critic, theorist, and author of The Analysis of Film