The Münsterberg ‘Problem’: between Mind and Soul
- Submitting institution
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University of Plymouth
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 1098
- Type
- C - Chapter in book
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- Book title
- A Treasure Trove. Friend of the Photoplay – Visionary – Spy? New Trans-disciplinary Approaches to Hugo Münsterberg‘s Life and Oeuvre
- Publisher
- Leipzig University Press
- ISBN
- 9783960231813
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
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- Year of publication
- 2018
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- Yes
- Additional information
- This chapter revisits Hugo Munsterberg as a figure who has a largely schematic presence in film historiography to situate him more centrally in the discussion of cognition and the experience of film. The anthology is the outcome of a long-standing project by the editor to reinstate Munsterberg more fully as a significant figure in the history of psychology and this chapter had its first draft presented at a conference organized by him to this end. The research for the essay was the undertaken in a media archaeology project that Punt led (the TIRROL Lab) in which 5 researchers rebuilt some of the original devices in Munsterberg's 1892 laboratory in Harvard and repeated some of his experiments alongside contemporary neuroscientists using portable fmri to contextualise his insights in a modern setting. An RA was funded for six months to undertake a literature review and archival search for newspaper articles to support the project. The dossiers and practices from this were used by four of the researchers in the lab to contribute to this anthology. In the case of Punt's essay, his journalism and translation of science offered a deep perspective on the paradigms conflict in the development of a discipline that accounted for Munsterberg's decline as a significant popularizer of psychology and his selective citation in film history.
The editor has worked for many years in Leipzig where there is a Wundt archive to reinstate Munsterberg as a key figure in thinking about the mind, and this anthology, as a book-length project to re-evaluate him was thought to be the best platform to share this research.
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