, almost machinelike way in which the visitor pursues her strange mission that impresses on us the absolute alienness of her perspective, despite the all-too-human Johansson body in which it is situated—a body that we learn at the film’s tragic conclusion
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Andreas Baranowski and Heiko Hecht
mental process, rather than absolute reality of space or time. He believed that the primary data for mental activity was sensory information (something he had already discussed in earlier works as “action theory”). This was in concordance with Eisenstein
Torben Grodal
mentioned, display psychopathic playful behaviors, Hans is always very serious and therefore the absolute opposite of John, who often acts in a playful fashion. Whereas John’s playfulness is mostly aimed at regulating his own emotions, the other villains
Film, Art, and the Third Culture
A Response
Murray Smith
tasks in the process of generating knowledge are ful(filled), it doesn’t matter in principle to which department or faculty the investigators belong. (It might matter in terms of funding, of course.) Indeed, an absolute division of labor, strictly
Toward a Naturalized Aesthetics of Film Music
An Interdisciplinary Exploration of Intramusical and Extramusical Meaning
Timothy Justus
classic work Emotion and Meaning in Music (1956), is that between what he termed “absolute meaning” and “referential meaning.” Following more recent terminology in the psychology of music (e.g., Koelsch 2012 ), I will use the related phrases
The Editors
Our journal did not come into the world with authority and certainty but did so, instead, with some hesitation and tentativeness. The narrator of Jonathan Swift’s eighteenth-century satire on modern learning, A Tale of a Tub (1704) claims for himself “an absolute authority in right” as the “last writer” and “freshest modern.” We make no such claim. At this point we may be both new and fresh, but we need to feel our way, to discover what is out there and what we might realistically expect to come into our own purview. But tentativeness is good. It allows us to be responsive to a variety of articles so long as they satisfy our goal of exploring film and mind. Tentativeness also allows us a sustained and continuing debate.
Eliza Deac
perspective was encouraged by the fact that, at the early stages at least, e-literature did not claim absolute novelty but was preoccupied with finding precursors and precedents in the field of literary practice and theory. At the time when Patchwork Girl
Violent Thresholds
Sights and Sounds of the Cinematic Baroque in Pascal Laugier's Martyrs
Lawrence Alexander
radical subjectivity and make it perceptible to and in external reality. The absolute divide between one's own subjective reality and that of others is similarly emphasized by Elaine Scarry in The Body in Pain , where she refers to the pain of others as
What Movie Will I Watch Today?
The Role of Online Review Ratings, Reviewers’ Comments, and Users’ Gratification Style
Nuno Piçarra, Níbia Silva, Teresa Chambel, and Patrícia Arriaga
.” Items were rated on a 5-point scale (1 = strongly disagree; 5 = strongly agree). Results Preliminary Analysis Data was screened for outliers, skewness, and kurtosis. Based on the Median Absolute Deviation (MAD) method recommended by Leys
Being Screens, Making Screens
Functions and Technical Objects
Mauro Carbone, Graziano Lingua, and Sarah De Sanctis
symbol of the new economy inaugurated by the Incarnation, which put an end to the absolute otherness between God and humanity, inaugurating a new closeness and a new visibility of the divine, as well as implicitly laying the foundations for a new