Author： Romao Tico
Publisher： Routledge Ltd
ISSN： 1740-0309
Source： New Review of Film and Television Studies, Vol.4, Iss.1, 2006-04, pp. : 53-61
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Abstract
This paper places Per Persson's book Understanding Cinema in relation to cognitive film theory and the increasing necessity of it to further engage with the psychological and anthropological literature on social cognition. This paper focuses upon Persson's ability to integrate cognitive and cultural perspectives when explaining a spectator's comprehension of point-of-view editing, variable framing and character psychology. It is argued that Persson's theoretical framework would have been more explanatorily complete if it had adopted an analytical dualist stance as a means to theorise the ontologically mixed nature of the psychological processes in question.
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