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The Mind Screen: Identification Desire and Its Cinematic Arena

The Mind Screen: Identification Desire and Its Cinematic Arena

Hardcover

CognitionFilm StudiesGeneral Psychology

ISBN10: 3631668481
ISBN13: 9783631668481
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: Dec 16 2015
Pages: 329
Weight: 1.15
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.80 Depth: 8.20
Language: English
For well over a century, films have exerted enormous influence. Viewers tend to identify unconsciously with the actors/actresses. The desire to become another, substituting identity by identification, can be traced to the illusion that the filmic heroes/heroines are immortal - identifying with them raises the possibility of gaining deathlessness.

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