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Peter Wyeth. The Matter of Vision
The Matter of Vision
Contents
Foreword: War of the Word
The Matter of Vision
1. The Matter of Vision
LCR v VAE. Vision
The Wisdom of Vision
The articulation of Vision
The Automatic
Emotion
Affective Neurobiology (ANB)
Reverse-Engineering Cinema
Kuleshov & Gazzaniga
Cinema and Language
The Long Shadow of Immanuel Kant
Real Materialism
New Empiricism
The Anti-Science tradition
Vision, Emotion, Cinema: Summary. Vision:
Emotion:
Cinema:
The Matter of Vision and Philosophy
The Matter of Vision: Summary
2. The Matter of Vision: Aphorisms
I. Propositions
II Extensions
III. Cinema
3. Commentaries
Life/Change/Movement/Cinema
Movement and the Eye
Survival and the Brain
Emotion and the Brain
Genetic to Cultural evolution
Emotion & Survival
Emotion and Reason
Language, Consciousness and Reason
Language, the Word and Logocentrism
Thought takes place only in Vision
Logocentrism
Consciousness
Consciousness and the Unconscious
Automatic/Unconscious
An Independent Term
Freud and the unconscious
Dream Science
Darwin’s List
Survival
Survival and shopping
Rationalise & Reason
Self-image & Survival
Reason
Vision
In the service of Vision
The quality of Vision
Left brain/Right brain
The Logic of Nature
Art & Science : Aesthetics & Brain Function. Metaphor
Narrative
Identification and Shared Circuits
Art & Science: Emotion
Plasticity of the brain
Emotion and the Automatic
4. Cinema. A. Cinema: a revaluation. Cinema as Vision plus
Cinema as Pure Sequence
A Classical Art
Science, Theory & Cinema
Cinema: Status v Power
Language, Vision and the Brain
B. Neurobiology and Cinema
The eye and movement
The brain and movement: emotion
Narrative and neuroscience
a. Narrativisation, Causation and Cinema
b. Kuleshov, Hitchcock and the narrativising tendency
c. Narrative, Change and Script
d. Hitchcock, Change and the Ideal Script
Mirror Neurons and Cinema
Shared Circuits and Cinema
The Automatic: Consciousness downgraded, the Automatic upgraded
C. The Classic Hollywood Cinema: a pinnacle of the medium. Classicism & Genius
i. Evolution, Culture and the Classic Hollywood Cinema
ii. Neurology and Narrative: Why Narrative?
iii. Anti-narrative?
iv. Narrative, CHC and Cultural Evolution
Evolution and Classical Form
Hollywood 1939–1964
Ideal Form
Cultural Evolution
Hollywood and Nature
Cultural Evolution & Classic Hollywood
The evolutionary process
Biology, evolution, culture, cinema
Evolution of film form
Evolution example: Cutting on Action
Creative Geography
‘Creative geography’ and cultural evolution
The Screenplay and the Ideal Film
Blue Jasmine & the Ideal Script
Classical aesthetics and the Ideal Script
Aesthetic cohererence & integration: Marnie
The Ideal Screenplay – a Perfect Engine of Meaning
The Genius of the System
3. The Affective: Making Emotion Visible
ANB & Cinema: The Campaign for Real Science
Affective Neurobiology & Cinema: Summary
A Theory of Cinema: 10 points:
5. On Method. Epistemology
A lesson from film-making
Essays
Formal v Informal knowledge
A Return to Nature
A Lesson for Kant
Expansive Materialism
The limits of materialism & metaphysics
A Practice of Film Theory
Confessions of a Convert
Left/Right brain – Science & Philosophy
Endnote
Bibliography & Filmography
Acknowledgements
Index
