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The Aesthetics and Psychology of the Cinema Jean Mitry
Publisher: Indiana University Press

Sep 8, 2012 - Yet these films are not lacking in psychology—on the contrary, the collection of outer attributes and actions pin the characters to the screen with a clear set of motives. Simplicity is by no means a bad thing but Swan: Nina Sayers (Natalie Portman) Black Swan is little more than exploitation cinema but its heavy pop psychology and complete lack of subversiveness make it shallow exploitation rather than transgressive. Jun 11, 2011 - As per usual, the director situates the notion of psychological terror in an outré manifestation of corporeal abjection offering kineticized melodrama that emphasizes the ramifications of morbid fixation. Jan 20, 2011 - Powell and Pressburger managed to pull off the blend of melodrama, ballet, theatrical aesthetics and hyper-reality magnificently in The Red Shoes without it ever feeling as basic and childish as it does in Black Swan. This myopic appraisal of aesthetics ignores the versatility of cinematic art (not to mention the complexity of directing a film), privileging a hierarchical order which favors restraint over extravagance/straightforwardness. On Disney, David Lynch, Such revelations, common in Lynch's cinema, make us “acutely uncomfortable,” because they drive down into our own dark regions—spaces Hollywood usually helps us escape. Due to the visual extravagance of his faults it for its lack of subtlety. This can often lead to negative and potentially dangerous consequences. Jun 28, 2013 - Yet the desire for immersion and flow does not merely impact on the aesthetic experience of the player, but their psychology also. The facts—whether The movies' factuality has been filtered through sensibilities as dramatic as they are reticent, and that reticence regarding the display of directorial intervention in the assemblage of incidents that tell the story has consequences that are both aesthetic and political. Oct 17, 2013 - This course will combine the formal aesthetic analysis of cinema with theoretical texts to investigate the ways that surrealism has been used in film. Jan 31, 2013 - The Problem with Aesthetic Violence. But intimacy with this He is the author of Against Happiness: In Praise of Melancholy, The Mercy of Eternity: A Memoir of Depression and Grace, and five books on the relationship between literature and psychology.