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Projections:

The Journal for Movies and Mind

WINNER OF THE 2008 AAP/PSP PROSE AWARD
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V O L U M E 4, I S S U E 1, S U M M E R 2 0 10


Interview

LARS VON TRIER ON ANTICHRIST

Articles

UNDERSTANDING CHARACTERS

Jens Eder

SOUNDTRACK IN MIND

Edward Branigan

NESTED IDEATION IN BRYAN BARBER’S IDLEWILD

John J. Hartman, Kim Vaz, and Lycia Alexander-Guerra

Review Essay

COGNITIVISM GOES TO THE MOVIES: Paisley Livingston and Carl Plantinga (eds.), THE ROUTLEDGE COMPANION TO PHILOSOPHY AND FILM; Carl Plantinga, MOVING VIEWERS: AMERICAN FILM AND THE SPECTATOR’S EXPERIENCE; Torben Grodal, EMBODIED VISIONS: EVOLUTION, EMOTION, CULTURE, AND FILM

Robert Sinnerbrink

Book Reviews

Norman Holland, LITERATURE AND THE BRAIN

Kay Young

Stephen Weissman, CHAPLIN: A LIFE

Leon Levin

Vicky Lebeau, CHILDHOOD AND CINEMA

Bonnie S. Kaufman

Patrick Colm Hogan, UNDERSTANDING INDIAN MOVIES: CULTURE, COGNITION, AND CINEMATIC IMAGINATION

Richard Allen

Esther Rashkin, UNSPEAKABLE SECRETS AND THE PSYCHOANALYSIS OF CULTURE

David Marriott

András Bálint Kovács, SCREENING MODERNISM: EUROPEAN ART CINEMA

Hubert L. Cohen

 

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VOLUME 3 . NUMBER 2

HINDI CINEMA

A Special Issue Guest Edited by Patrick Colm Hogan and Lalita Pandit Hogan

INTRODUCTION: Hindi Cinema as a Challenge to Film Theory and Criticism

Patrick Colm Hogan

Articles

FANTASY, REALISM, AND OTHER MIXED DELIGHTS: What Have Film Analysts Seen in Popular Indian Cinema?

Sara Dickey

PAKEEZAH: Dreamscape of Desire

Richard Allen and Ira Bhaskar

PUT YOUR HANDS UP AND SING . . .”: Cross-Cultural Film Reception and Fandom

Hannah Birr

HUM AAPKE HAIN KOUN . . . !: An Example of the Coding of Emotions in Contemporary Hindi Mainstream Film

Alexandra Schneider

ON THE MEANING OF STYLE: Cognition, Culture, and Visual Technique in Bimal Roy’s Sujata

Patrick Colm Hogan

BODY MOVEMENTS AND AUDIENCE EMOTION IN MIRA NAIR’S FILMIC BOMBAY

Frederick Luis Aldama

COLOR AND ARTEFACT EMOTION IN ALTERNATIVE CINEMA: A Comparative Analysis of Gabbeh, Mirch Masala, and Meenaxi: A Tale of 3 Cities

Lalita Pandit Hogan

Book Review

Stephen Alter, FANTASIES OF A BOLLYWOOD LOVE THIEF: INSIDE THE WORLD OF INDIAN MOVIEMAKING, and Ranjani Mazumdar, BOMBAY CINEMA: AN ARCHIVE OF THE CITY

by Rini Cobbey

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Volume 3, Issue 1

Articles


“Sick Eros’: The Sexual Politics of Antonioni´s Trilogy
Frank P. Tomasulo and Jason Grant McKahan

Spatial Representation in Cognitive Science and Film
Daniel T. Levin and Caryn Wang

Psychoanalysis, Cinema, History: Personal and National Loss in René Clément´s Forbidden Games
Esther Rashkin

Blendings of Real, Fictional, and Other Imaginary People
Henry Bacon

Book Symposium

Comments on Tom Wartenberg´s Thinking on Screen: Film as Philosophy
Cynthia Freeland

Philosophy In/Of/As/And Film: Thomas Wartenberg´s Thinking on Screen: Film as Philosophy
Richard Eldridge

Response to My "Critics"
Thomas Wartenberg

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Volume 2, Issue 2

Articles

An interview with Mike Leigh
Mike Leigh
Andrea Sabbadini

Enslaving Central Executives: Towards A Brain Theory of Cinema
Yadin Dudai

Frankenstein, Dracula, and the Workings of Genre
Eric Rabkin

Feelings in Conflict: A Clockwork Orange and the Explanation of Audiovisual Emotions
Jens Eders

Emotions in Sound: Audiovisual Metaphors in the Sound Design of Narrative Films
Kathrin Fahlenbrach


Reviews


D. N. Rodowick, THE VIRTUAL LIFE OF CINEMA
By Michael Goddard

Anne Friedberg, THE VIRTUAL WINDOW: FROM ALBERTI TO MICROSOFT
By Carl Plantinga

Sean Cubitt, THE CINEMA EFFECT
By Charles Eldsvik




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Volume 2, Issue 1

Articles

Neurocinematics: the Neuroscience of Film
Uri Hasson, Ohad Landesman, Barbara Knappmeyer, Ignacio Vallines, Nava Rubin, David J. Heeger

The Perverse Cosmos of Being John Malkovich: Forms and Transformations of Narcissism in a Celebrity Culture
Lissa Weinstein and Banu Seckin

Meta-Emotion: How Films and Music Videos Communicate Emotions About Emotions
Anne Bartsch

What Difference Does it Make? Science, Sentiment, and Film
Murray Smith

From Despair to Wonder: Scenes of Transcendence in Indian Cinema
Lalita Pandit

 

Reviews

Laura Mulvey. DEATH 24 X A SECOND: STILLNESS AND THE MOVING IMAGE.
By Vivian Sobchack

Birgitta Steene, INGMAR BERGMAN: A REFERENCE GUIDE
By Paisley Livingston

Andrew M. Gordon. EMPIRE OF DREAMS: THE SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY FILMS OF STEVEN SPIELBERG
By Bernard Roth

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Volume 1, Issue 2

The Camera as a Container: Jonathan Caouette's Tarnation
Adrienne Harris

An Interview with Jonathan Caouette
Jonathan Caouette
Laurence Hegarty

Strange Contracts: Elfriede Jelinek and Michael Haneke
Vicky Lebeau

Emotion Capture: Affect in Digital Film
Steven Shaviro

The Segmenting Spectator:  Documentary Structure and The Aristocrats
Greg M. Smith


Reviews

Sophie Fiennes (dir.), Slavoj Zizek (writer and perf.), THE PERVERT'S GUIDE TO CINEMA
By Krin Gabbard

Daniel Frampton, FILMOSOPHY
By Robert Sinnerbrink

Vivian Sobchack, CARNAL THOUGHTS: EMBODIMENT AND MOVING IMAGE CULTURE
By Catherine Zimmer

 

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Volume 1, Issue 1

Film Studies and the New Science
Ira Konigsberg

On Affect, Motion and Nonverbal Art: A Case and a Theory
Gilbert J. Rose

Sensorimotor Projection, Violations of Continuity, And Emotion in the Experience of Film
Patrick Colm Hogan

The Neuroscience of Metafilm
Norman N. Holland

Attachment, Trauma and the Vicissitudes of Love: Circularity in Julio Medem's Lovers of the Arctic Circle
Silvia M. Bell

Pain, Sadness, Aggression and Joy: An Evolutionary Approach to Film Emotions
Torben Grodal


Reviews

Mark Turner (ed.), THE ARTFUL MIND: COGNITIVE SCIENCE AND THE RIDDLE OF HUMAN CREATIVITY
By Carl Plantinga

Mary A. Peterson, Barbara Gillam and H.A. Sedgwick (eds.), JULIAN HOCHBERG ON THE PERCEPTION OF PICTURES, FILMS AND THE WORLD
By Jeffrey M. Zacks

Glen Gabard (ed.) PSYCHOANALYSIS AND FILM, and Andrea Sabbadini (ed.), THE COUCH AND THE SILVER SCREEN
By Bonnie Kaufman

 

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