It’s just past 10:00 am on a humid Monday in Singapore, and the streets seemed to have settled after a workday rush. My walk from Arab Street to McNally Street was rather placid, punctuated by moments at intersections, and surrounded by people heading somewhere. Minutes later, I was looking up at the postmodern buildings of LASALLE College of the Arts—a panorama of reinforced concrete, glass, tiles, and steel gleaming under the morning sun. In cinema, spaces and landscapes are primary features. At times, the setting goes beyond the overarching narrative, as it conveys its own story. Given their impact, Stephen Heath (2016) infers that a process occurs in identifying spatial connections to the characters, since “organizing, guiding, sustaining and reestablishing the space are the factors that reveal this process.” The audience absorbs the familiar images or experiences onscreen. However, embodied objects of varying iterations contribute to how environments in films are concretized. On this note, one can ask: in what ways do filmic environments thus project narratives and discourses?
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illuminated by neuroscientific discoveries. But the brain is not the whole story; according to the theory of the “extended mind,” human cognition relies extensively on the environment beyond the skin and skull of the individual agent. And according to the
The Aesthetics of Boredom
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two distinctive forms: (1) simple boredom, a fleeting, temporary and timebound condition arising from either the lack of stimuli in an environment, an inability of attention, impatience or other external circumstances such as confinement; and (2
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still am not, competent to argue out these positions insofar as they bear on veridical perception in our environment. But I would maintain that inference of an informal sort is crucial to understanding all kinds of social phenomena. Take what have been
David Davies
intensity. Our ability to empathize is extended across a wide range of types of person and situation, and sustained and intensified by virtue of the artificial, “designed” environments created by narrative artefacts . (191) In each of these passages, we
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the medium to create a pathetic relationship between man and environment.” Basinger (2007: 69 ) suggested that, in Mann’s westerns “the landscape both frames and embodies action,” and added that “a character’s position in the narrative (as well as his
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an environment that is difficult to control mentally, and creates a feeling in the viewers of being overwhelmed. The bad guys are psychopathic charlatans and this activates social FEAR for the big city and its socially foreign or deviant persons. To
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reality environments, by contrast, our actual and simulated embodied experiences come into close—ideally, fully unified—alignment. Dream On Another motif that Gallese weaves into his account of embodied simulation in the context of film viewing is the
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knowledge acquired through other films, other media, or personal experience. A case in point is Jon Bang Carlsen’s documentary oeuvre . During his longitudinal film research, which he records on camera, Bang Carlsen often lives in the same environment he