[ecrea] new publication - Speaking Pictures: Neuropsychoanalysis and Authorship in Film and Literature

*Speaking Pictures***

*Neuropsychoanalysis and Authorship in Film and Literature***

/Alistair Fox/

     "Very rich argumentation that progressively constructs its object, 
shifting with much skill from the conceptual elaboration of its global 
perspective to the various concrete examples of works approached so to 
give it flesh and blood." - Raymond Bellour, film critic, theorist, and 
author of /The Analysis of Film/

Alistair Fox presents a theory of literary and cinematic representation 
through the lens of neurological and cognitive science in order to 
understand the origins of storytelling and our desire for fictional 
worlds. Fox contends that fiction is deeply shaped by emotions and the 
human capacity for metaphorical thought. Literary and moving images 
bridge emotional response with the cognitive side of the brain. In a 
radical move to link the neurosciences with psychoanalysis, Fox 
foregrounds the interpretive experience as a way to reach personal 
emotional equilibrium by working through autobiographical issues within 
a fictive form.

Alistair Fox is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of 
Otago, New Zealand. He is author of /Jane Campion: Authorship and 
Personal Cinema/, translator of Anne Gillain’s /François Truffaut: The 
Lost Secret/, and editor (with Raphaëlle Moine, Hilary Radner, and 
Michel Marie) of /A Companion to Contemporary French Cinema/.

Indiana University Press

March 2016 310pp  9780253020918 PB £24.99now only £19.99* when you quote 
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