Pub Date : 2020-12-31DOI: 10.1515/9780804781787-fm
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Pub Date : 2020-12-31DOI: 10.1515/9780804781787-004
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Pub Date : 2020-12-01DOI: 10.3167/proj.2020.140306
Philip Cowan
Analyzing moving images is one of the fundamental practices in our attempt to understand the medium. Building on Noël Carroll’s functional theory of film style, this article attempts to define a taxonomy of functional elements of shot composition in order to establish a clear methodology for the analysis of a moving image. Carroll criticizes forms of stylistic analysis that limit themselves to a few pre-selected aspects of the moving image, for example, genre motifs, individual filmmakers’ personal traits, or broad studies of film movements. Numerous writers have presented breakdowns of component parts of a moving image, often in wider discussions of film form. However these lists are often incomplete or do not have a clear methodology. This article identifies the key components of a moving image that could serve a functional purpose in individual films.
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Pub Date : 2020-12-01DOI: 10.3167/proj.2020.140302
Joerg Fingerhut
When watching a film, we are seeing-in moving images. Film’s visual experience is therefore twofold, encompassing a recognitional (the scene presented, the story told, etc.) and a configurational fold (editing, camera movement, etc.). Although some researchers endorse twofoldness with respect to film, there is also significant resistance and misrepresentations of its very nature. This paper argues that the concept is central to an understanding of the basic apprehension and the aesthetic appreciation of film. It demonstrates how twofoldness could play a more substantial role in a new cognitive film theory and a naturalized aesthetics of film. By discussing recent theories of our motor engagement with cinema it shows how referencing to the interplay of two filmic folds could inform such a theory.
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Pub Date : 2020-12-01DOI: 10.3167/proj.2020.140307
L. Summa
This article investigates the relationship between philosophical accounts of criticism, largely within the analytic tradition, and the practice of criticism. Specifically, I am interested in the performative, subjective, and often idiosyncratic nature of such a practice and in the advantages it can deliver in the understanding of works of mass art, in the inquiry over the nature of aesthetic judgments, and in initiating aesthetic appreciation. Promoting such a connection is also, in turn, a way of at least partially bridging the divide between analytic approaches and the kind of work more typically conducted by scholars in film studies.
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Pub Date : 2020-12-01DOI: 10.3167/proj.2020.140303
M. Turvey
This article surveys some of the major criticisms of mirror neuron explanations of human behavior within neuroscience and philosophy of mind. It then shows how these criticisms pertain to the recent application of mirror neuron research to account for some of our responses to movies, particularly our empathic response to film characters and our putative simulation of anthropomorphic camera movements. It focuses especially on the “egocentric” conception of the film viewer that mirror neuron research appears to license. In doing so, it develops a position called “serious pessimism” about the potential contribution of neuroscience to the study of film and art by building upon the “moderate pessimism” recently proposed by philosopher David Davies. It also offers some methodological recommendations for how film scholars should engage with the sciences.
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Pub Date : 2020-12-01DOI: 10.3167/proj.2020.140304
Filippo Contesi
Noël Carroll’s influence on the contemporary debate on the horror genre is hard to overestimate. His work on the topic is often celebrated as one of the best instances of interdisciplinary dialogue between film studies and philosophy of art. It has provided the foundations for the contemporary study of horror in art. Yet, for all the critical attention that his views on horror have attracted over the years, little scrutiny has been given to the nature itself of the emotion of horror in the genre. This paper offers a critical understanding of the nature of the emotion of horror for Carroll, with a view to informing future investigations into the nature of horror in film (and beyond).
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Pub Date : 2020-10-26DOI: 10.1162/00c13b77.b9ad539e
Andrew Binet, Shin Tan
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Pub Date : 2020-10-26DOI: 10.1162/00c13b77.0c274823
Lauren Drakopulos, Dustin Robertson, S. Panchang, Meghna N. Marjadi, Zach Koehn, Lian W. Guo
Transdisciplinary research (TR) is valuable for studying complex environmental health issues. Paying attention to how practices ‘on the ground’ can - and should - inform policy and planning requires disrupting the silos in which these entities frequently operate. Yet in practice, bridging disparate fields of inquiry towards a common goal is a difficult task, and few empirical examples exist to guide researchers interested in using TR to examine environmental health issues in real-world contexts. In this paper, we reflect on the design and execution of a collaborative, transdisciplinary project that examines localized effects of urban and environmental governance on urban subsistence fishing as a foodway with key health implications. We first review the socio-environmental literatures on urban fishing to outline the utility of TR. Next, we present our TR synthesis, which integrates secondary data from federal, state, and municipal agencies in two U.S. Gulf Coast metropolitan areas, including a subset of results to demonstrate TR in action. Finally, we critically reflect on our TR experience in relation to corresponding theory, allowing insight into the strengths and drawbacks of utilizing TR in practice. Benefits include a more holistic linkage of complex socio-environmental components, the illumination of power dynamics between stakeholders, and the co-creation of knowledge in a multidisciplinary research team. The challenges we faced highlight issues of translation across disciplinary methods when framing research questions and when integrating data sources collected for different sectoral purposes. In particular, we discuss the role of synthesis - the triangulation of diverse secondary sources - to the practice of TR. We share these lessons to inform further integrated research on the relationships between place-based health, urban development, and environmental equity.
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Pub Date : 2020-10-26DOI: 10.1162/00c13b77.29ae0baa
J. Reece
Planning in the context of emotion is an important but underemphasized aspect of planning practice. Planning literature has traditionally viewed issues of trauma through the lens of therapeutic planning. Two strands of scholarship emerging from the field of public health can enhance our understanding of planning for the emotional health of youth. Trauma Informed Community Building (TICB) focuses on community building strategies that counteract contemporary trauma found in challenging environments. Scholarship documenting the impact of youth trauma, referred to as Adverse Childhood Experience (ACE’s) emphasizes the need to support emotional health for youth. The paper presents a case study of the I Am My Brother’s Keeper (I Am MBK) program, implemented in Columbus, OH, as a model of trauma informed youth community development. I Am MBK illustrates the importance of supporting the emotional health of youth as a form of planning for emotion. Findings from the I Am MBK case illustrate how trauma informed practice can strengthen our existing concept of therapeutic planning, by supporting the emotional health of youth through empowerment, radical acceptance, creation of safe spaces, advocacy, relationship building, mind/body practices and experiential learning. The I Am MBK case improved the emotional health of youth but could not counteract other systemic or structural policy challenges in the community. The case demonstrates the importance of aligning planning for emotional health with reforming systems and structures in alignment with Schweitzer’s three obligations of restorative healing.
情感背景下的规划是规划实践中一个重要但不被重视的方面。规划文献传统上通过治疗计划的视角来看待创伤问题。公共卫生领域出现的两股学术研究可以增强我们对青少年情绪健康规划的理解。创伤知情社区建设(TICB)侧重于社区建设策略,以抵消在具有挑战性的环境中发现的当代创伤。记录青少年创伤影响的学术研究,被称为不良童年经历(ACE),强调需要支持青少年的情感健康。本文介绍了在俄亥俄州哥伦布市实施的“我是我兄弟的守护者”(I Am MBK)项目的案例研究,作为创伤知识青年社区发展的典范。我是MBK说明了支持青少年情绪健康作为一种情绪规划形式的重要性。“我是MBK”案例的研究结果表明,创伤知情实践可以通过赋权、激进接受、创造安全空间、倡导、建立关系、身心实践和体验式学习来支持青年的情感健康,从而加强我们现有的治疗计划概念。“我是MBK”案例改善了青少年的情绪健康,但无法抵消社区中其他系统性或结构性政策挑战。该案例证明了将情绪健康计划与改革系统和结构结合起来的重要性,这与施韦策的恢复性治疗的三个义务相一致。
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