Thanks very much for pointing that out. I must admit that I personally respond much more favorably to various psychoanalytic approaches than Bordwell's cognitivism. Given the way that mirror neurons work at a more or less unconscious level, perhaps they might provide some way to usefully reconcile the two approaches by linking our cognitive responses to images with our (sexual, cultural, political, etc.) unconscious desires.
David Church
Adrian Martin <[log in to unmask]> wrote: Uncanny! (The Freudian uncanny??) There happens to be a comment on
mirror neurons in relation to viewer identification that I just
stumbled upon at David Bordwell's fascinating blog site (in the entry
on UNITED 93):
http://www.davidbordwell.net/blog/
But all this cognitivism is depressing me (quick, give me a pill).
Bring back Freud! All hail the unconscious!!
Adrian
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