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19 août 2021
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Thinking Thoughts Mind Mind Science, Mental Mental philosophy Mind Behavioral sciences Muscle Musculature Myodynamics Myology Feature films--History and criticism Movies Films Moving-pictures Cinema Mind-body connection Somatopsychics Mind-cure Body and soul (Philosophy) Mind-body relations Body and mind Human body--Psychological aspects Mind Affection Human intelligence Intelligence Mind Human face Human emotions Passions Feelings Ethology Cerebrum Mind Audiences, Communication Communication audiencesCiter ce document
Tyne Daile Sumner, « Up-Close, Far Away », Literature and the Face: A Critical History, ID : 10670/1.nsstg2
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Reflecting on cinema’s love of the close-up, in 1924 the Hungarian film critic and poet Béla Balázs observed: ‘In close-ups every wrinkle becomes a crucial element of character and every twitch of a muscle testifies to a pathos that signals great inner events.’ When we think of close-ups of the human face, cinema is often the medium that comes to mind. On film, enlarged faces take audiences into a different reality, transporting us to the ‘inner events’ of another person’s emotions and...