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Visual perception and audiovisual translation: directed vision
2012
This paper is based on the premise that “some of the basic skills needed to understand film and television are identical to those necessary for natural visual perception” (Grodal 1999: 76). Perception is an unconscious and natural way of interpreting our environment based on prior experience and learning. In contrast to the deeply rooted Western belief that image is universal and true, our argument is that visual perception is a cognitive process determined by prior experience, environment, context, cultural values and motivation. This paper analyzes the application of cognitive research on visual perception in audiovisual narrative strategies and its implications for the study of the audio…
Il pranzo di Babele. Misunderstanding nel film "Il pranzo di Babette"
2013
“Il pranzo di Babette” (1987), trasposizione cinematografica del regista danese Gabriel Axel dell’omonimo racconto di Karen Blixen, inizialmente contenuto nella raccolta di scritti “Anectodes of Destiny” pubblicato a firma Isak Dinensen (pseudonimo della sua autrice) ha riscosso un unanime consenso di critica e pubblico, vincendo prestigiosi premi quali l’Oscar come miglior film straniero e la menzione speciale della giuria ecumenica del festival di Cannes, sbancando i botteghini in giro per il mondo. Il film è diventato un grande classico del cinema culinario, in grado di radicarsi nel senso comune e diventare pertanto fonte di ispirazione per letterati e cinefili che ne hanno analizzato …
Blood-Red Relations In and Out of Place : Women’s Self-Harm and Supernatural Crime in The Moth Diaries
2022
In Canadian filmmaker Mary Harron’s The Moth Diaries (a Canadian/ American/Irish co-production), exploring adolescent girls’ friendships and self-harm in a boarding school setting, blood is out of place. It drips from the protagonist’s father’s wrist artery, willingly shed in suicide; involuntarily tarnishes her nightgown as menstrual blood; falls on the school director’s china figurines as nosebleed; and pours in the school library as a vampire-invoked rain. Moth uses blood to manifest the suicide contagion that Rebecca fears she has inherited from her artist father. Blood also signifies her resistance and recovery, enabled by her difficult relationship with her schoolmates, erstwhile best…