Lessons in Perception

Paul Taberham is Associate Professor in Animation Studies at the Arts University Bournemouth. He is the coeditor of Cognitive Media Theory (2014) and The New Experimental Animation: From Analogue to Digital (2018). Paul has appeared on radio, spoken internationally at conferences, and published articles for several edited collections and journals including Projections: The Journal for Movies and Mind and Animation Journal. He is a fellow of The Society for Cognitive Studies of the Moving Image.

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgements



Introduction



PART I: COGNITION



Chapter 1. The Specter of Narrative

Chapter 2. Ghost Films of the Avant-Garde



PART II: VISUAL PERCEPTION



Chapter 3. Bottom Up Processing, Entoptic Vision and the Innocent Eye in the Films of Stan Brakhage

Chapter 4. Robert Breer and the Dialectic of Eye and Camera



PART III: AUDIO-VISUAL PERCEPTION



Chapter 5. Synaesthetic Film Reconsidered

Chapter 6. Three Dimensions of Visual Music



Conclusion



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