The Matter of Vision. Peter Wyeth

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СКАЧАТЬ style="font-size:15px;">      Meaning and Emotion are one.

      Meaning is Emotion

      Without emotion we don’t care

      the emotion-engine is not engaged.

      Care is subjective.

      We care about what has engaged our Emotions.

      Emotion is life in motion.

      Motion is the founding moment of Life.

      Life seeks survival.

      Emotion is the reflection of that desire.

      We care about things only insofar as they are related to survival.

      Disinterested caring does not exist.

      Selflessness is selfish as mutual interest aids survival.

      Altruism has evolutionary purpose.

      We are altruistic only better to survive.

      Morality cannot be superimposed on evolution

      nor extracted from evolution.

      Evolution is disinterested.

      It is.

Emotion is the engine of life⁷⁶.

      x

      The Automatic

Consciousness handles ten bits per second⁷⁷ The brain absorbs eleven million

      Eleven million minus ten

      with no word of its own.

      Conscious and unconscious

      ten v eleven million.

      Un-conscious not just not conscious

      but automatic all the time.

      Automatic.

      We are not aware of it.

      Without our knowing

      a billion tasks a second.

      The Automatic.

      If most of a film enters the brain

      outside consciousness

      enters the Automatic.

      Then

      Cinema a treasure-trove

      of the Automatic.

      experimental design

      untangles

      Conscious from Automatic

      a priority for

      Affective Neurobiology & Cinema

       III. Cinema

      i

      Cinema is nature

      Cinema is a matter of Vision

      Vision is a matter of Emotion

      Emotion is a matter of survival

      Survival is a matter of nature

      Nature becomes Culture in cinema

      Cinema is nature

      Nature becomes culture

Cinema is culture⁷⁸.

      ii

      Movement I.

      Cinema is moving images

      Movement is fundamental to existence

      Movement of a predator.

      Life is movement

      Death is no movement.

      Vision captures movement.

      Evolution favoured Vision

      The eye is the first sense.

      We follow the hero

      As we follow the predator

      A matter of life and death.

      iii

      Movement II.

      Cinema is Emotion

      Classical Hollywood made Emotion visible

The movement of Emotion became visible⁷⁹.

      We follow Emotional movement on the screen.

      The fortunes of the hero/ine carry our attention

      We watch their fate as it were our own.

      iv

      Movement III.

      Movement attracts Emotion

      Movement generates Emotion

      Movement creates Emotion.

      We are moved.

      Movement of the hero across the frame

      extended in time and space

      by metaphorical movement

      of emotions around him.

      We care about the fate of the hero

      Only because we care about our own.

      The mechanism of Cinema

      arouses the same processes

      In the human brain

      We follow the fate of the heroine

      New information all the time

      Adds to our knowledge about her.

      Stars suspend a negative conclusion

      Even when the hero is a baddie

(Hitchcock’s Uncle Charlie⁸⁰)

      The trajectory of the fate of the hero attracts us

      As our own fate at the hands of a predator.

      The graph of his rise and fall

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