Projections
The Journal for Movies and Mind
Aims & Scope
Editor: Stephen Prince, Virginia Tech
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Published in association with The Society for Cognitive Studies of the Moving Image and The Forum for Movies and Mind
Projections: The Journal for Movies and Mind is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal that explores the way in which the mind experiences, understands, and interprets the audio-visual and narrative structures of cinema and other visual media. Recognizing cinema as an art form, the journal aims to integrate established traditions of analyzing media aesthetics with current research into perception, cognition and emotion, according to frameworks supplied by psychology, psychoanalysis, and the cognitive and neurosciences. Submissions are welcomed from a variety of scholarly methods within the humanities and the sciences, from aesthetic to empirical, theoretical, and historical approaches. The journal seeks to facilitate a dialogue between scholars in these disciplines and bring the study of moving image media to the forefront of contemporary intellectual debate.
Subjects: Film Studies
Current Issue
Volume 7, Issue 1, Summer 2013
From the Editor
Entertaining Violence
Introduction: The Problem of Entertaining Violence
Dirk Eitzen
Cultural Effects of Cinematic Violence: Private Ryan and the Dark Knight
Dirk Eitzen
Violence in Extreme Cinema and the Ethics of Spectatorship
William Brown
Monstrous Appetites and Positive Emotions in True Blood, The Vampire Diaries, and The Walking Dead
Riike Schubart
Regarding Violence
Henry Bacon
The Hostel Rhetoric of Torture: A Discourse Analysis of Torture Porn
Will Gartside
“Violence Is a Many-Splintered Thing”: The Importance of Realism, Justification, and Graphicness in Understanding Perceptions of and Preferences for Violent Films and Video Games
Ron Tamborini, René Weber, Nicolas David Bowman, Allison Eden, and Paul Skalski
Book Reviews
Maggie Nelson, The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning
Maggie Hennefeld
Karla Oeler, A Grammar of Murder: Violent Scenes and Film Form
Aaron Petten
Book Symposium
Seeing Fictions in Film: The Epistemology of Movies, by George M. Wilson (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011)
Introduction
Paisley Livingston
Seeing Fictions in Film
Douglas Pye
The Imagined Seeing Thesis
Paisley Livingston
Film Narration, Imaginative Seeing, and Seeing-In
Robert Stecker
Reply: Seeing Through the Imagination in Cinema
George M. Wilson