Enacting the Worlds of Cinema

<em>Enacting the Worlds of Cinema</em> offers a substantial reconfiguration of the textual roots of modern film narratology. By giving sustained attention to cinema's material-affective modes of communicating its stories and embedding its audience in atmospheric kinetic and multisensorial worlds <br>this book maintains that film narratives are less representations than they are enactments; brought forth through the interactions of the felt body and the film material. The book defends this enactive and media-anthropological thesis by reworking a series of established film narratological key<br>concepts including the diegesis mood/atmosphere and the distinction between diegetic and non-diegetic sound. In the process this book draws on a wide range of contemporary theoretical resources such as affective neuroscience media-philosophy philosophy of mind atmosphere research multisensory<br>perception theory as well as a broad selection of films including <em>Berlin: Symphony of a Great City </em>(Ruttmann 1927) <em>The Cranes are Flying </em>(Kalatozov 1957) and <em>Happy as Lazzaro</em> (Rohrwacher 2018).