Brain Sculpting and Cinema: Blow-Up: Photography, Cinema and the Brain by Warren Neidich Ove Christensen October 2005 Book Reviews We all take in the world through our bodily perceptions and the inferences these perceptions give rise to. The shape and colour of a tree are understood as a tree because we have gotten used to connecting the p...
Cinema and Culture Theory: Film Theory: Critical Concepts in Media and Cultural Studies edited by Philip Simpson, Andrew Utterson and K.J. Shepherdson Ove Christensen February 2005 Book Reviews Before cinema studies was established as an academic enterprise there existed already a fair pile of theoretical writing on cinema. Hugo Münsterberg, Béla Balász and Rudolf Arnheim were the most prominent; howe...
Danish Dogmas: Purity and Provocation: Dogma ’95 edited by Mette Hjort and Scott MacKenzie Ove Christensen October 2004 Book Reviews In 1995 the (in)famous Danish director Lars von Trier and the young director Thomas Vinterberg launched a manifesto for filmmaking known as Dogma '95 and a set of rules – The Vow of Chastity – that had to be ob...
