The Neuro-Image: A Deleuzian Film-Philosophy of Digital Screen Culture (Cultural Memory in the Present)
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| Rating | : | 4.34 (707 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0804781362 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 392 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-05-30 |
| Language | : | English |
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Jody Oberfelder said Five Stars. Fascinating!. Five Stars E. Lima great book
"Drawing on recent research in neurobiology and cognitive psychology as well as her own thinking about currently prevalent topics in cinema studies and film-philosophy, Pisters builds a case for the neuro-image that is usually persuasive and sometimes dazzling I recommend The Neuro-Image to everyone interested in Deleuzian film theory I commend her intellectual derring-do in expanding the Deleuzian dyad of movement-image and time-image with an innovative new meta-image paradigm. Its grounding in the particularities of twenty-first-century screen practice makes it a timely intervention, and I suspect that Deleuze would have welcomed it."—David Sterritt, New Review of Film and Television Studies
Political and ethical aspects of the neuro-image are discussed in Part Three. Part One, on the brain as "neuroscreen," suggests rich connections between film theory, mental illness, and cognitive neuroscience. Part Two explores neuro-images from a philosophical perspective, paying close attention to their ontological, epistemological, and aesthetic dimensions. These domains return in the book's tripartite structure. Arguing that today's viewers move through a character's brain instead of looking through his or her eyes or mental landscape, this book approaches twenty-first-century globalized cinema through the concept of the "neuro-image." Pisters explains why this concept has emerged now, and she elaborates its threefold nature through research from three domains—Deleuzian (schizoanalytic) philosophy, digital networked screen culture, and neuroscientific research. Topics covered along the way include the omnipresence of surveillance, the blurring of the false and the real and the affective powers of the neo-baroque, and the use of neuro-images in politics, historical memory, and war.