By Patricia Pisters
Arguing that latest audience go through a character's mind rather than searching through his or her eyes or psychological panorama, this publication methods twenty-first-century globalized cinema in the course of the proposal of the "neuro-image." Pisters explains why this idea has emerged now, and she or he elaborates its threefold nature via study from 3 domains—Deleuzian (schizoanalytic) philosophy, electronic networked reveal tradition, and neuroscientific learn. those domain names go back within the book's tripartite constitution. half One, at the mind as "neuroscreen," indicates wealthy connections among movie idea, psychological affliction, and cognitive neuroscience. half explores neuro-images from a philosophical point of view, paying shut realization to their ontological, epistemological, and aesthetic dimensions. Political and moral features of the neuro-image are mentioned partially 3. subject matters lined alongside the best way contain the omnipresence of surveillance, the blurring of the fake and the genuine and the affective powers of the neo-baroque, and using neuro-images in politics, historic reminiscence, and war.