Enacting the Worlds of Cinema

By Hven and Steffen Hven

Enacting the Worlds of Cinema offers a substantial reconfiguration of the textual roots of modern film narratology. By giving sustained attention to cinema's material-affective modes of communicating its stories and embedding its audience in atmospheric, kinetic, and multisensorial worlds,
this book maintains that film narratives are less representations than they are enactments; brought forth through the interactions of the felt body and the film material. The book defends this enactive and media-anthropological thesis by reworking a series of established film narratological key
concepts including the diegesis, mood/atmosphere, and the distinction between diegetic and non-diegetic sound. In the process, this book draws on a wide range of contemporary theoretical resources such as affective neuroscience, media-philosophy, philosophy of mind, atmosphere research, multisensory
perception theory as well as a broad selection of films including Berlin: Symphony of a Great City (Ruttmann, 1927), The Cranes are Flying (Kalatozov, 1957) and Happy as Lazzaro (Rohrwacher, 2018).

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0197555101
• ISBN13: 9780197555101
• Release Date: May 2022
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.0"