Projections

The Journal for Movies and Mind

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Published in association with The Society for Cognitive Studies of the Moving Image

Projections: The Journal for Movies and Mind is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal that explores how the mind experiences, understands, and interprets the audiovisual 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.

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Current Issue

Volume 11, Issue 2, Autumn 2017

From the Editor
Stephen Prince

Articles

One Hundred Years of Photoplay: Hugo Münsterberg’s Lasting Contribution to Cognitive Movie Psychology
Andreas Baranowski and Heiko Hecht

Emotional Responses to Savior Films: Concealing Privilege or Appealing to Our Better Selves?
Erin Ash

Communicative Functions of Performer Expressiveness and Their Artistic and Aesthetic Aspects: Analysis of a Scene from Smiles of a Summer Night
Johannes Riis

Cutting Rhythms: Editing and Cognition Beyond Continuity
Karen Pearlman

Die Hard as an Emotion Symphony: How Reptilian Scenarios Meet Mammalian Emotions in the Flow of an Action Film
Torben Grodal

Book Reviews

Jason Mittell, Complex TV: The Poetics of Contemporary Television Storytelling
Margrethe Bruun Vaage

Alexa Veik von Mossner, ed., Moving Environments: Affect, Emotion, Ecology and Film
Gabriella Blasi

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