Banca de DEFESA: ISADORA MENESES RODRIGUES

Uma banca de DEFESA de DOUTORADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : ISADORA MENESES RODRIGUES
DATE: 12/05/2022
TIME: 08:00
LOCAL: Videoconferência Via Google Meet (Pandemia Covid19)
TITLE:

INWARDNESS TURNED INSIDE OUT: a genealogical study of the neuro-images in contemporary cinema.

KEY WORDS:

Neuro-image. Cerebral Subject. Body and subjectivity. Contemporary cinema. History of film.

PAGES: 213
BIG AREA: Ciências Sociais Aplicadas
AREA: Comunicação
SUMMARY:

This thesis investigates a certain tendency of contemporary cinema to form mindscapes through references to the characters' brain, structuring the regime of neuro-images (PISTERS, 2012). Challenging the diagnosis that sees this phenomenon as an effect of the intersection between neuroscience and the current ecosystem of digital media, we investigate what other forces have made possible the emergence of this somatic mode of subjectivation in recent films. Supported by Vidal and Ortega's (2019) research on the cerebral subject, by Crary's (2012) study on the rise of the embodied viewer, and making use of Foucault's (1998) genealogical method, we assume that the rise of neuro-images has depended on the historical construction of the ontological function of the brain, in which the organ is no longer seen only as a part of the body but is now recognized as the physiological stronghold of personal identity. Our findings show that cinema itself was instrumental in the conformation of this cerebral knowledge about the human being, having done this through the articulation of three filmic figures throughout the 20th century: the nervous face, which embodies the characters' thoughts; the neuroanatomical topography, in which mental landscapes are formed by the recognition of the spatial abilities of the nervous system; and the brain-machine, in which the technological intrusion in the organ allows the externalization and reprogramming of the mind. Although our referential framework of analysis consists of 171 films, the thesis highlights three works in examining each of these figures: La Glace à trois face (1927, Jean Epstein), Je t'aime je t'aime (1968, Alain Resnais), and Possessor (2020, Brandon Cronenberg). By pointing this out, we don't mean to say that the films necessarily articulate a reductive vision of the subject, but that cerebralism is always articulated in the neuro-images.

BANKING MEMBERS:
Externa à Instituição - Maria Cristina Franco Ferraz - UFRJ
Interna - 1134091 - ANGELA FREIRE PRYSTHON
Interno - 1189721 - EDUARDO DUARTE GOMES DA SILVA
Externa à Instituição - LAURA LOGUERCIO CANEPA - UAM
Presidente - 1670247 - RODRIGO OCTAVIO D AZEVEDO CARREIRO