Arguing that todays viewers move through a characters brain instead of looking through his or her eyes or mental landscape; this book approaches twenty-first-century globalized cinema through the concept of the "neuro-image." Pisters explains why this concept has emerged now; and she elaborates its threefold nature through research from three domainsmdash;Deleuzian (schizoanalytic) philosophy; digital networked screen culture; and neuroscientific research. These domains return in the books tripartite structure. Part One; on the brain as "neuroscreen;" suggests rich connections between film theory; mental illness; and cognitive neuroscience. Part Two explores neuro-images from a philosophical perspective; paying close attention to their ontological; epistemological; and aesthetic dimensions. Political and ethical aspects of the neuro-image are discussed in Part Three. Topics covered along the way include the omnipresence of surveillance; the blurring of the false and the real and the affective powers of the neo-baroque; and the use of neuro-images in politics; historical memory; and war.
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