How we watch movies

19 Outubro 2016, 14:00 Cecília Maria Beecher Martins

Discussed students' questions on their film review.

Read Holland's article "Who says film is dead?" from the Psychology Today blog and reproduced in the manual - discussed how watching movies at home affects the experience.

Very interesting discussion on Holland's proposal that we absorb/acknowledge as part of our living experience visual images that "stop our motor systems" - extended this discussion to the discussion of photojournalistic pictures that seem to wake people up like the picture of Omran Daqneeesch from Aleppo. . Discussion of Kelly Grover's article "Images that stop the world in its tracks" also reproduced in the manual.

Expanded discussion art vs reporting (article also shows Paula Rego's War, which was based on a picture.